Pat Berger

1929 - 2022

BiographyA painter, educator, artist and activist, Pat Berger has spent her life inspiring others through her creative works. Her work through the years always alternated between her love of nature and art involving social issues. The homeless became a focal point in the 80's with a series of paintings and lithos over a 5-year period to raise peoples' awareness. Her series traveled around the country and is now in collections of the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum in Buffalo, NY, the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, CA, WestArt & The Law Collection, University of Minneapolis, and the American government publication "Politics and Political Culture" (1995), as well as numerous documentaries.

Another series, completed in the 90's, entitled Women and Plants of the Bible helped the artist feel her own identity and spirituality as well as express a statement of women at a time when women's issues were at the forefront.

In 2012, Ms. Berger was the keynote speaker for United Way, in Kern County, on the issue of homelessness, with her work part of the homeless display at the Bakersfield Museum. Over the course of her career, she has starred in a one-woman show at Mendenhall Gallery and exhibited her artwork at the Riverside Art Center and Museum, Moosart Gallery, Bridge Gallery and Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. Her work has been on display across the country and around the world in major cities, including Los Angeles, Miami and Tokyo. Driven by her passion for art, Pat Berger notes that she enjoys all painting media as well as drawing, mask-making and photography. In addition to the many art awards she's collected, she has been honorably selected for inclusion into Who's Who in the West and Who's Who of American Women. A former student of UCLA, Pat Berger continues in her professional development through her membership with the Jewish Artists Initiative of Southern California. She is a past president and an honorary lifetime member of the National Watercolor Society.

Pat Berger's paintings of nature were inspired by her travels - from desert cacti to lush tropical jungle plants - and more recently to trees and branches that parallel the human condition; a tree grows, blooms, fades and ages as do people. Pat continues to be deeply influenced by the environment, the changing moods and colors that affect our emotions, and desire to see beyond physical limits. She is currently using birds as a metaphor for not only what is happening in the world today, but how this series seems to evoke feelings from each viewer about issues that may be affecting them personally. Pictured above is "Wonderment." Pat has been receiving many comments on Facebook that are so positive.

Ms. Berger has worked as an educator in many roles as well. She was the art chairman for the Downey Museum of Art, an artist-in-residence at the Brandeis Institute, and a painting and drawing instructor for the LA Unified School District. Today, Pat Berger's permanent collections can be found at the Skirball Cultural Center, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the University of Minneapolis Law School, Julia and David White Artists' Colony in Costa Rica, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Springfield Art Museum, and Södertälje konsthall in Sweden. As she looks to the future, Pat Berger intends to continue crafting meaningful works of art while inspiring budding artists through education and craft.

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