Artwork copyright Paul Berger. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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Artwork copyright Paul Berger. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2017.
Card-Plate 1, 1998
Paul Berger
American (born 1948)
Location: Spanaway Lake High School, Spanaway
About the Artwork
Card-Plate 1 is a gridded collage of imagery derived from television programs and captured by artist Paul Berger using a process that involves different computer graphics software. He notes that his works investigate how digital graphics techniques overlap and link with mechanical hand-drawing and camera-based imaging.
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Bethel School District.
About the Artist
Paul Berger is a pioneer in exploring the artistic possibilities of digital imagery. He combines and manipulates imagery from a huge variety of sources to investigate the meaning of images and how we dissect them. Berger notes, "I am not so much interested in the single, isolated photo image as I am in the way that images group themselves together in ways that provide us with context and meaning. I am interested in responding to common image groupings such as the printed page, the television screen, the computer printout." He first included a computer in the making of his art in the early 1980s.Berger served as professor of art at the University of Washington for thirty-five years, co-founding the photography program in 1978. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (1970) from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Fine Arts (1973) from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.
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