Below the Reef Painting

Clara Berta is a passionate, award-winning abstract mixed-media artist of Hungarian heritage. Her dynamic and highly textural abstract works have been exhibited and collected across the United States and Europe. Clara is a Los Angeles-based Abstract Painter living and working in the heart of the newly revitalized Downtown LA. Her work studio gallery has recently become listed on the Downtown LA Art Walk map, and is now a popular stop on the Second Thursday Downtown LA Art Walk. A prolific painter with an extensive body of abstract artwork, the exhibit changes every month, as she adds to and rotates her substantial inventory. Inspired by the fast pace and ever-changing landscape of Downtown Los Angeles. Her mixed-media acrylic paintings have recently become more vibrant, alive with movement. Recently adding resin topcoat to a few pieces, the newest works are alive with brilliant color and high gloss, appearing as if under glass. Clara Berta’s modern paintings explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, renewal, the passing of physical time, desire, passion, and love. She explores the collision between the old and new, destruction and rebuilding. Her paintings underscore the awareness of the failures and shortcomings that are part of our lives. Her artworks are a language, a push forward in new directions and achievements, while always inspired by history.