The Visionary Narrative of David Berkowitz Chicago

Paintings of the superb author, visual artist, painter and illustrator David Berkowitz have so far been exhibited at several world locations, and know his home city of Chicago will get the chance to see his exquisite work. This mini-retrospective will encompass his entire opus of creativity, starting from his earliest beginnings, all the way to his most recent works of art. Visitors will also get the chance to see some of his never before exhibited works.

Although the opus of David Berkowitz Chicago is known for its drawings, bronzes, colored bronzes, colored lithographs, silk-screen prints, ink-jet prints and especially woody colors and gildings, the works are mostly smaller in size.  This exhibition is an opus that has so far been unknown to the wider public and seeks to illuminate its artistic potential that has been neglected over the years. David Berkowitz Chicago has been using light motives such as circle, spiral and line in different colors and formats since the nineties. They appear alone in the form of a batch of records, but also as building elements of the entire palette of miraculous beings, temples and planets, encouraging the creation of illusions about the mythological and exotic space. Determined geometric shapes break down and lose, in the second part of his opus, in abstract fields of pure and vibrant colors. The author uses pencils, gold and silver flamingos, pastels and watercolors on black or white backgrounds. Perhaps the absence of institutionalized education has enabled unbound access to drawing and painting, resulting in works that are both simple and imaginative.

Symbol systems, drawings and records, watercolors and paintings are part of the visionary narrative of an imaginative world full of fantastic creatures and architecture resulting from listening to the energy and spiritual potentials that the author is surrounded by and their translation into a materialized form in which the substrate is paper or canvas. It is used as a radiesthetic tool, where geometric precision and mathematical accuracy in the drawings often alleviates and directs to the clarity of the abstraction, which illustrates the extremes of David Berkowitz Chicago's opus. A solid belief in the existence of bioenergy allows the artist to share his philosophical-religious vision and knowledge with the community.