Jeanne Wilkinson, Catalogue Essay
2005
New York Painters (Pintores de Nueva York)
Emily Berger's paintings bring to mind the dynamism of the city with their fierce strokes and colors. Her work expresses the energy of abstract expressionism, of thought processes that depend on a flow of energy entering the mind, traveling through the senses and emerging through the hand. Her linear expressions of spontaneity, movement and substance connote experiences that make up the layered days of life in New York, a city continually on the edge of discovery, always ready to give you more, more, more. I believe that if you put your ear up to these paintings, you will hear the city within their lines.