pics, words – fish
The paintings of Justin Berger are jaw-dropping, meticulous marvels.
Uncomfortable with being away from them for long, the artist showed his work briefly at Nina Haggerty, selling his amazing handmade comic Native Ninja for $20 and laughing off offers to buy his originals. “They’re priceless,” he said. “If someone came in with a cheque for $50-million I’d turn them down.”
Calling his works his soldiers, he described them as protective, allowing them to be photographed only as it would cause them no harm.
The art speaks for itself, as meticulous as embroidery, especially in his most recent work. The tentacles of fire shooting through Night on Jupiter was also especially amazing.
Hopefully we’ll see these up on the walls again, but once was an honour.
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