Featured Solo Exhibition:
Andrea Bergen: The Last Pit Stop
March 21 - May 4, 2024
March 21 - May 4, 2024
Andrea Bergen, The Good, The Bad, and The Buccee’s, 2023, hand cut paper and gel medium on wood panel with UV Topcoat, 44x48x1.75
Artist's Talk
Saturday, April 20th, starting at 2 pm
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Saturday, April 20th, starting at 2 pm
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Transmission gallery is pleased to present Andrea Bergen: The Last Pit Stop, a solo exhibition of Bergen’s cut paper collage and paper maché works with vinyl wall installation. Both humorous and deadly serious, Bergen brings sculptural pieces and freeform wall-mounted work to view in a riotous vision of self indulgence and impulse featuring animals run rampant in the aftermath of consumer excess. Pigeons fly off with the snacks, a mandrill looks on in alarm, tigers and bears feast while raccoons ride roughshod over the scene.
Andrea Bergen was born in Oakland, CA in 1989, she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2013. For over a decade she has been developing her singular collaging technique. Rather than assembling disparate images together, she creates landscapes and figures from thousands of pieces of hand cut colored paper. Bergen’s artwork represents this convergence as her collages are a melding of traditional and contemporary art movements. Her bold colors, vibrant graphics, and energetic style pull from street and graffiti art while the representationalism and spatial dynamism reference Pop Art and Surrealism.
Bergen’s work has been shown in several locations around the greater Bay Area including the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and Morris Graves Museum in Eureka. Bergen created a group of collages for the 2015 Art on Market Street Bus Kiosk Poster Series to commemorate the City Hall Centennial. The theme of the series was “Party Animals,” which featured lively vignettes of San Francisco’s animals celebrating and frolicking amongst the city’s landmarks. In 2018 she was commissioned to create the season artwork for the Cutting Ball Theater in the Tenderloin. Bergen’s collages were selected for inclusion in both exhibitions of the deYoung Open at the deYoung Museum in 2020 and 2023.
Andrea Bergen was born in Oakland, CA in 1989, she received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2013. For over a decade she has been developing her singular collaging technique. Rather than assembling disparate images together, she creates landscapes and figures from thousands of pieces of hand cut colored paper. Bergen’s artwork represents this convergence as her collages are a melding of traditional and contemporary art movements. Her bold colors, vibrant graphics, and energetic style pull from street and graffiti art while the representationalism and spatial dynamism reference Pop Art and Surrealism.
Bergen’s work has been shown in several locations around the greater Bay Area including the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, and Morris Graves Museum in Eureka. Bergen created a group of collages for the 2015 Art on Market Street Bus Kiosk Poster Series to commemorate the City Hall Centennial. The theme of the series was “Party Animals,” which featured lively vignettes of San Francisco’s animals celebrating and frolicking amongst the city’s landmarks. In 2018 she was commissioned to create the season artwork for the Cutting Ball Theater in the Tenderloin. Bergen’s collages were selected for inclusion in both exhibitions of the deYoung Open at the deYoung Museum in 2020 and 2023.
