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AWAKEN MY BELOVED 5, 1990-2020 PASTEL 40X27 IN. | 101.6X68.5 CM..
COME LIFT YOUR BODY OF HEAVY SORROWS,
COME RISE,
I AM STANDING BEHIND YOU, ALWAYS,
I WILL HELP YOU
AWAKEN MY BELOVED 4, 1990-2020 PASTEL 40X27 IN. | 101.6X68.5 CM.
COME, LIFT YOUR ARMS IN JUBILATION,
I WILL MEET YOUR JOY … WITH JOY,
I WILL MEET YOU WITH EACH TURN
OF THE FIERY WHEEL.

female form in a multitude of poses (some strong, some merely
passive, but none weak) with mystic and sacred images like the
sun, mandalas and even the metaphor of the dark wood. Using
the ever malleable media of pastels, graphite, and other mixed
media Berg manages to both draw focus to the woman subject
as well as express a piece of the universe in the background.
Sometimes the woman blends with the background like in
Goddess I and II, while in Visitation of the Goddess the woman
is the center and the background. In his Creatress series
(mainly mixed media) Berg brings subject and metaphor to the
front. Many of his women are pregnant, fulfilling a natural and
divine rite- creation, the bringing forth, the holder of the sacred
Yoni. Kimberly Berg breathes life into his art, a divine birth of
creativity where art is the placenta that sustains the world
while it grows, develops, and eventually becomes enlightened.
Reviewed by Logan Riley in the New York Arts Magazine

Woman as Center of the Universe
In the world of mysticism and sacred culture, woman is the
center of the universe. Woman the creator, the bringer of life.
It is woman, in the guise of the Hecate with their yarn and
scissors or Diane and Artemis with the Moon and night sky or
Psyche enamoring the epitome of love itself that has driven
ancient and modern cultures. For a time though, the role of
women has been misplaced, swept under the rug to make room
for machismo and male domination. But, as they did then,
things change.
Kimberly Berg is restoring women to their rightful place. Berg
almost acts like the Tarot’s High Priestess - he ushers in the
unseen, drawing back the mystical curtains, magical forces to
enlighten The Fool - representing the world. His art, as he says,
is a doorway (not an explanation). A doorway for the viewer
to create and imagine a message. Kimberly Berg mixes the

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