Originally from St. Louis, Berger has spent the greater part of her life living and traveling abroad, including the Middle East, India, Africa and Europe.  These locations have greatly informed Berger’s art.  Most recently, her artist books, as painted during her stays in India and the Middle East, were exhibited at the Rubin Museum of Art.

Through the medium of hot wax and pigment, Berger has incorporated into her work patterns as drawn from, inter alia, late-Medieval mosaics, Syrian wood blocks, Yemen tattoos and African scarification.  In resuscitating and altering these patterns, Berger reaches a universal memory, an objective that is furthered by the unique and resonant beauty of the colors and tones that Berger has invented for her paintings.  The art critic Walter Robinson observed that Berger’s paintings have a “color and symmetry that’s like Barnett Newman channeled through Matisse in Morocco.”

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