Exhibitions
LandSignals
Listening to Inyan, June 2024 - June 2025
Jackson Hole Center for the Arts Courtyard
Jackson Hole Public Art produced LandSignals to envision a future that more authentically includes Indigenous voices and traditional ecological knowledge to help us better steward the natural resources and cultural heritage of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
LandSignals is funded in part with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and with generous support from Christy Walton, Marshall and Veronique Parke, Mary Armour, Kate Jensen, Agnes Bourne, Carrie F. Kirkpatrick DA Fund of CFJH, Petria and Scott Fossel, Katrina and Brandon Ryan, Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, History Jackson Hole, Center for the Arts, the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund, Wyoming Wilderness Association, National Elk Refuge, Grand Teton Association, JH Travel and Tourism Board, Jackson Hole Land Trust, and Charter Communications and Ovation TV.
Past Shows & Portfolios
Re:Manifest
2023 Ann Street Gallery Emerging Artist Fellowship, Newburgh NY
The fellowship project addresses “decolonization” in a local and contemporary context. The work confronts the tensions and misconceptions in our understanding of American history through study of the land and the story of the Munsee people in the Hudson Valley. The cyanotype "sun-print" process aims to allow the land to tell stories of its original people. Berg’s work explores concepts of shared historical trauma, recovery of Indigenous tradition, and acknowledgement of Indigenous cultural perspectives on mourning, healing, and dreaming. The work enacts a commitment to change through acts of decolonization.
Intermittent Streams
Plaster stone installations made to honor the seasons and change. In the mountains, an intermittent stream occurs when groundwater provides water for stream flow seasonally. In recent years, the changes in intermittent streams have been an indicator of climate change. There are increasing occurrences of floods of surface water instead of seasonal streams from groundwater made from melting snow or there is not enough melting snow to allow for intermittent streamflow. The stones installed on the wall reflect on the relationship we have to nature and what it can tell us about our changing climate.
Paper Wings
“Paper Wings” is an exploration of line and the connection of the earth to the celestial bodies. In Paha Sapa (Black Hills) of South Dakota the night landscape that shimmers in the silver light is reduced to the geometry of circle and a tree horizon line. On clear nights one can stand in the prairie grass and deconstruct the landscape to its simplest elements — earth and sky. In New York City, or other places without stars, the buildings can be compared to canyons and lights from lit windows, to stars. These works are imagined memory sky-capes, they are abstractions of line that are imbued with notions of flight, connection to place, and existence.
