{"id":2034,"date":"2016-11-05T08:09:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2017-11-26T19:43:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T00:43:54","slug":"gerry-bergstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2016\/11\/05\/gerry-bergstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Bergstein at Gallery Naga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallerynaga.com\/artists-list\/gerry-bergstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gerry Bergstein<\/a>\u2019s exhibit \u201cSkeleton Crew\u201d at Gallery Naga, artists\u2019 studios, in all their messy glory, become wellsprings for the fantastic. In some of the artworks, actual 3D heaps of paint (or at least what seems to be paint) become compost sprouting explosions of blossoms. As in \u201cThe Gleaners,\u201d 2016, pictured here. Some artworks turn what appear to be ancient, dingy accreditations of paint splatters on a studio floor into mold infestations and archipelagos and cosmoses. With collaged pictures of bunnies and babies and quotes from Matisse and other art history. And echoes of Pieter Brueghel and Anselm Kiefer. Plus trompe l\u2019oeil eye trickery.\u00a0And Bergstein making cameos as both a house painter\/janitor and Jackson Pollock, the mundane custodian becoming the alchemist master of ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gerry Bergstein, \u201cSkeleton Crew,\u201d Gallery Naga, 67 Newbury St., Boston, Oct. 7 to Nov. 5, 2016.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2015\" src=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w-719x1024.jpg\" alt=\"picgerrybergsteinnagagallery161102_0802w\" width=\"600\" height=\"855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w-719x1024.jpg 719w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w-508x723.jpg 508w, https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/picGerryBergsteinNagaGallery161102_0802w.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Gerry Bergstein\u2019s exhibit \u201cSkeleton Crew\u201d at Gallery Naga, artists\u2019 studios, in all their messy glory, become wellsprings for the fantastic. In some of the artworks, actual 3D heaps of paint (or at least what seems to be paint) become compost sprouting explosions of blossoms. As in \u201cThe Gleaners,\u201d 2016, pictured here. Some artworks turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[54,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3988,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/3988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}