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“My art derives from the forms and situations

of the coastal environment; an area of ephemerality and continuous change; a region where extremes meet; where one is always conscious of infinite relationships of light and movement.

A thread running through my work has been the effect of seeing and experiencing things from above heightened circumstances. The aerial overhead component allows for vibrant,

undulating space to mentally visualize within.”

EDUCATION

B.A. Cum Laude, Studio Art, University of California at Irvine, 1975

Graduate Work, Art Education, University of California at Irvine, 1976

 

PROFESSIONAL 

2001 – Current

B2 Productions – Publishing Creative & Manufacturing - Owner

         

MAGAZINES

           Alert Diver

           Water

           FOAM

           Snowboard Journal

           Dig

         

BOOKS

           Tavarua, Na Gauna E Vadjirorogo Tuke O Viti; Scott Winer Photography; 2022

           Tavarua, The Spirit of Fiji's Heart-Shaped Island; Scott Winer Photography; 2011 

            Goin' Big: Gotcha and The Evolution of Modern Surf Style; O'Sullivan; Full Force, Inc.; 2008

            The Pipeline: Deep Inside the Worlds Most Respected Wave; Airborne Media LLC                                                     & Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc.; 2008

           Surfline's Costa Rica Surf Guide; Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc. & Airborne Media; 2008

           Jeffreys Bay: Down the Line at the World's Best Pointbreak; Airborne Media LLC

                   & Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc.; 2007

          Ball pythons: The History, Natural History, Care and Breeding; Barker and Barker; VPI Library; 2006

          Surfline's California Surf Guide: Secrets to Finding the Best Waves; Collins; Surfline; 2005

1978 – 2001

Surfing magazineAssociate Publisher, Creative

            Surfing

            BodyBoarding

            Surfing Girl

            Volleyball

            Desert

EXHIBITIONS

 

SOLO

2023     

Overhead, Cruise Control Contemporary, Cambria, CA

 

1989

Painted Fragments, Five Feet, Laguna Beach, CA, Siren Art International

 

1984

Coastal Presence, Stage One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1983

New Work/New Studio, Los Obreros Space, San Clemente, CA

 

1976

Southern Exposure, Arnold Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

 

GROUP

2017     

Barry Berg & R.T. Pece, Paul Williams Gallery, Ontario, CA

 

2013     

Photography Exhibit, Historic Cottage Gallery at SC State Beach, San Onofre Parks Foundation, San Clemente, CA 

 

1994

Gun Show, Arieas/Pece Gallery, Santa Ana, CA

 

1990     

Heal The Bay, James Corcorian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1985     

2D and 3d Works, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA

 

1984     

Alumni Exhibition 1970-1983, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, CA

All California 1984, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA, Juror, Henry Hopkins, Director, SFMMA     

 

1982     

Target: Earth, Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1981     

Sales & Rental Gallery in conjunction with California: The State of the Landscape 1872-1981, Newport Harbor Art Museum,

        Newport Beach, CA

Alumni Art Exhibition, Twelve-person exhibition, University of California at Irvine, CA; Curator, Leah Vasquez

 

1980     

Three Person Exhibit, Stage One Gallery, Orange, CA

Correspondence Show, Castle Ga11ery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY

Poesia & Realta, Gruppo Alternativo, Centro Documentazioni Arti Visive e Archivio, Salerno, Italia

L.A. 200, Traction Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Help Show, Otis-Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA; Curator, Lon Spiegelman

 

1979    

Modern Correspondence, Lincoln Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

Contents: Objects, Piles and Boxes, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA; Curator, Mike Crane

Mail Etc., Art: Traveling Correspondence Art Show, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; circulating to Tyler School of Art,                       Philadelphia, PA and Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

The Stamp Act of·1979, Junior Arts Center Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA; Curator, James Volkert

In the Bathroom, Seven-person exhibition, Room 212, Artists' Space, San Clemente, CA

Certified Mail Art Show, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia 

Rudimentary Desires, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

National Cremation of Mail Art, Gallery 101, University of Wisconsin, River Falls, WI

Umbrella, University Art Galleries, University of California, Riverside, CA

Bard College Mail Art Show, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

International Postal Art Exhibit, The Art School Gallery, Carrboro, NC

Poste Restante, Liverpool Academy of Arts, Liverpool, England

Art Wet: Artists Interpret the Pacific, Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA; Curators, Victoria Kogan and Bill Riley

Mail Art-Exhibition, Artists' Meeting Place of Stuttgart, IX; Congress of the International Association of Art, Stuttgart, West                   Germany; Curator, Angelika Schmidt

Fragments-Ziox, Hamline University Gallery, St. Paul, MN; Curators, Don Miller and Walt Nottingham

Our Own Artists: Art in Orange County, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Curators, Betty Turnbull,

        Victoria Kogan

Who's Who That's Who, Mills House Visual Arts Complex, Garden Grove, CA

Seeing What They Send, Qwipzine coordinated by Jerry Dreva, part of Gary Lloyd Qwip Installation, Artworks, Venice, CA;   

        Institute for Art and Urban Resources (P.S.1) NY

 

1978     

Postfolk 1978, The Exit Gallery, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT

Postcard and Mailart Show, Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA

Heart of Dixie, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Artwords and Bookworks, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; circulating exhibition: Artists' Space,

        New York City; Herron School of Art, Indianapolis; New Orleans Contemporary Art Center; Institute of Modern Art,    

        Brisbane, Australia. Curated by Judith A. Hoffberg and Joan Hugo

Secret, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Grey Matter, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Letters to Mr. Cuttlefish, Compiler of Poetic Postulates, Sanguine Suite XVI, N. Hollywood, CA

Death of Mail Art Show, Indada, Bloomington, IN

Difficult Decisions/Ethical Dilemmas, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN

Lightworks Envelope Show, Lightworks Magazine, Ann Arbor Public Library, Ann Arbor, MI

First International Mail Art Show, St. John's University, Staten Island, New York

International Burial of Mail Art, Open Gallery, Eugene, OR

Southern California Postcard Show, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA

Copy Machine Mail Art Exhibit, San Diego Academy of Fine Arts, San Diego, CA

Open Studio International Mail Art Show, South of Market Artists, Inc., San Francisco, CA

The Crash of '79 Mail Art, R. Mutt Galleries, Northridge, CA

Robin Crozier Blue Show, Gallery Sudurgotu 7, Reykjavik, Iceland

Places, Two-person exhibit: Barry Berg & Tom Threinen, Room 212 Artists' Space, San Clemente, CA

 

1977     

International Postcard Show, Smith College, Northampton, MA

Art in the Mail, Circulating exhibition, Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Circle 77, Circulating exhibition, Uniart Gallery, Elblag, Poland 

Sign/Symbol, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand

Not Clay Invitational, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA  

Summer Attraction, TJB Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

Winter Show, Five-person exhibition, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The 1968 Mail Art Show Held Nine Years Later in Dubuque, Iowa, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA

All of the Above, Wichita Art Museum, Witchita, KS

Postal Art, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Christmas Card Mail Art Show, Century Gallery, Los Angeles County Cultural Center, Sylmar, CA

 

1976     

All California Exhibition, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

CS/PG All Media Show, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA; Juror, Henry Hopkins, Director SFMMA 

 

1975     

UC Irvine: 1965-1975, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Curator, Melinda Wortz, Gallery Director, UCI

 

1974      

Annual Student Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Artweek, Winter Show, Gerrard Haggerty, Vol. 8/No. 44, 1977, p.6

Artweek, A Closer Look at Orange County, Lynn Gamwell, Vol.10/No. 34

Umbrella, Artists’ Books: Reviews, Vol. 2/No. 4, 1979, p.86

Artweek, Barry Berg, Environmental References, M. Spellman, Vol. 7/No. 43, 1976, p.4

Umbrella, Post Nuclear Memorials, Vol. 6/No. 4, 1983, front and back covers

 

CATALOGUES

Contents: Objects, Piles and Boxes, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, California. Photo: p20

Our Own Artists: Art in Orange County, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California. pp9, 28. Photo: p29

The Umbrella Show, University Art Galleries, University of California at Riverside, California. Photo: pplO, 23

 

PUBLICATIONS

"Artwords and Bookworks Postcard Edition," set of 92 Artists' Postcards produced in conjunction with the LAICA Artwords              and Bookworks Exhibition, Umbrella Associates, Glendale, California

OK! Magazine, Spring 1979 issue, Nihilist Press, Los Angeles, California. Photo: ppl6-20

Problems, a self-published book comprised of 14 parts depicting the human figure as an event

 

REVIEWS

ARTWEEK, "Barry Berg: Environmental References," Martha Spe)lman, Vol.7/No.43 (November 27, 1976), p.4/photo.

ARTWEEK, Winter Show at the Los Angeles County Museum Art Rental Gallery, Gerard Haggerty,

         Vol.8/No.44 (December 24, 1977), p.6

ARTWEEK, A Closer Look at Orange County, Lynn Gamwell, Vol.10/No.34 (October 20, 1979), p.6.

UMBRELLA,  Artists' Books: Reviews,  Vol.2/No.4 (July 1979), p.86


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