My vision is to explore individual character within the world in which we live. Through internal, person-centered narratives often set in external events and crises, my drawings ask how we define ourselves within our social context, delving into how we carry our past with us as the lens through which we view the present, and how we seek human connection.
Drawing is everything to me. Self-taught, I have drawn all my life. I work within a narrative, a moment in a story, an internal exploration of an external event. I focus on contemporary, social justice/humanist themes with both intimate and broad implications, stories experienced through life in Washington, DC, through my former work in a community mental health clinic, or what I’m reading.

The result, I hope, is thoughtful, intriguing, truthful, and a bridge between self-questioning and how to translate such understanding into action in our present world.

Biography: Jeffrey Berg

A self-taught artist throughout a long professional career, most recently as a case manager in a community mental health clinic, I now draw full-time in my studio at the 52 “O” Street Studios in Washington DC.  My work has been exhibited in numerous solo and juried group shows in the DC area including two regional museum exhibitions and several open studio events. My artwork has been reviewed by The Washington Post and The Hill Rag, is held in private collections and permanent collections of commercial and public venues and has been published in five international journals and on the cover of a regional magazine. I have thrice been invited to artists’ residencies and am a three-time Fellow of the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.