Overlapping translucent circles in deep red, burgundy, blue, green, and orange create a layered composition against a light background, suggesting cosmic density and celestial movement through color interaction and spatial depth.

Pulsar

Laura Berman

4/11/2014 – 5/24/2014

Press Release (PDF)

Stars are the inspiration for Laura Berman’s exhibition Pulsar. Directional, magnetic and precise, pulsar stars inform the way we view and measure the universe. These dense stellar remnants are born in supernovas; simultaneously inward-­falling and outward­-exploding stars. Berman has spent a great deal of time in the Kansas Flint Hills, a vast landscape of nothingness, where the distance between sky and land is short and unmediated. Her new work reflects the connections between these enormous expanses and dense details within a common space. Berman has created site-­specific exhibitions and exhibited her print work at numerous galleries and museums around the country and internationally. Her prints are collected internationally and are published through her own studio in Kansas City, Pele Prints (St. Louis, MO), and Círculo del Arte (Barcelona, Spain). She has been a visiting artist, and has worked as an artist­ in­ residence at a number of institutions around the world.

Berman is a full professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she has taught in the Printmaking Department since 2002. She received her BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and her MFA from Tulane University. Her work has been featured in The Book of Probes by David Carson / Marshall McLuhan, Printmaking at the Edge by Richard Noyce, and A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking, by Ehlers, Ehlbeck and Muise.

Exhibition Images ()

  • A grid of nine framed works on a white wall, each featuring a radial composition of overlapping triangular and geometric shapes in vibrant colors including red, blue, yellow, green, and burgundy, arranged in starburst patterns that radiate from central points.
  • A gallery space displaying a small framed abstract print with colorful circular patterns on the left wall, and a large dome-shaped sculptural installation on the floor composed of thousands of tightly packed colored spheres in yellow, white, blue, red, and green tones, creating a dense, bulbous form that appears to emerge from or rest against the corner.
  • A minimalist gallery interior displays abstract artworks on white walls. On the left, a horizontal framed piece features intersecting lines in red, yellow, black, and blue radiating outward. On the right wall, two smaller framed prints show organic clusters of colorful circles in jewel tones. A doorway with warm lighting opens to an adjacent gallery space beyond.
Overlapping translucent circles in deep red, burgundy, blue, green, and orange create a layered composition against a light background, suggesting cosmic density and celestial movement through color interaction and spatial depth.