Artist Nancy Berlin’s Constant Revisions, is a way of chronicling change. This includes reconsidering, reevaluating, remapping and ultimately revising that thinking and looking at ideas and information over time require. Even if so-called “facts” don’t change, the interpretation and examination of what was formerly held to be eternal truths do. In today’s world, this shifting change seems to happen faster than ever, these drawings are a way of marking that change.

Berlin works on found materials that at one time seemed to be reliable sources of information. These include maps from old atlases, pages from outdated encyclopedias and parts of vintage history and travel books. Drawing/painting on top of these Berlin often use horizontal lines, both deliberate and accidental, to insinuate text. Berlin layers a range of marks on top of them, many derived from proofreaders’ symbols and historic manuscript editing. Often there will be an intrusion of a geometric form to mark a particular development. The process of painting in this way, continuously amending the imagery, becomes an emblem of the idea behind it: constant revision.

Many of these drawings/paintings on paper were done over the first 100 days of social isolation due to the pandemic, influenced by the information/misinformation that flowed during that time. 

The exhibit will feature her new work and an installation of these daily drawing/paintings at one set price (100 for $100 each).