Clara Berta

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 ...

2008 Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
2008 Mixed Media - Carol W. Slade, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Abstract Painting - Annie Wharton, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Mixed Media - Melinda Smith Altshuler, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Mixed Media, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Monotype - Lynn Bernay, Valley Village, CA

Exhibits:

2018 Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Breaking Illusions: Artist as Scientist, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2011-2018 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Barrett Art Center, New Directions, Poughkeepsie, NY
2017 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2016 Made in California, Juried Exhibit, City of Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2015 Vision of LA Fest, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2015 Michael Kate Interiors, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 JCC Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2013 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, FL
2012 Gem – Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Barnsdall Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Art: Raw/Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, NV
2007 NoHo Gallery, North Hollywood, CA
2007 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2004 Erotic by Nature, LaPeer Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2004 Lankershim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA
2000 Pick-A-Dilly Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA