Mr Berger is a sculptor and he has worked in New York City for 40 years.
This portfolio website provides a small sampling of his work and the work shown here was done between 1978 and 2002. The website is in the process of building and additional information about the sculptor will be added accordingly, along with more recent work, new work and work in progress
‘My sculpture and drawings are done from the live model, and the human being, the figure, the nude and the body are its foundation. The individuals represented by the work are its source. The work is predominately life size and often much larger and sculpted directly from the model at monumental scale. The drawings and small scale models are part of a lifetime of study of the human body; of its forms and their functions. Sculptural studies, and drawings which number thousands over the decades, are either independent works or exercises and studies which relate to details or ideas and plans for larger work’
Mr.Berger was a founding faculty member at the New York Academy of Art and he was the first instructor of Figure Drawing at the Academy at its inception in 1983. He was an instructor of Portrait, and Figure Sculpture there, as well as an instructor of Human Anatomy and of the Anatomy of Movement. Mr.Berger was also on the faculty of The National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts as instructor of Anatomy and of Figure Drawing. He has taught at many of the other art schools in New York City, including the Sculpture Center and the Educational Alliance, and was an instructor of stone carving at the Five Towns School of Music and Art, and has held atelier classes, workshops, lectures and demonstrations at his studios in Brooklyn over the past 4 decades
The sculptor takes work by commission and can be reached via the contact page on the site or at ljosephberger58@gmail.com to discuss a project, or otherwise any interest you may have regarding purchase of preexisting work.
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