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Guggenheim Museum's permanent collection. The exhibition debuted Berg's "White Holes" and "Black Holes" which use painted and unpainted suction cups in various ways mounted on Masonite and displayed in clear Plexiglas boxes Berg called "Environmental Boxes". "The Big Bang" was also included in the exhibit which portrayed a mushroom cloud as a thick white circle made of painted flexible pipe.
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In 2012, her work was presented by Hionas
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In 1984, Berg's exhibit "The
Geometric Angle in Sculpture" was presented at Martin/Molinary Art and Design. The exhibit featured her transition into working with found objects. The exhibition also featured painting Berg created in the 70s including her "Black Series" and "Four Elements" which would
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Berg's work consists of assemblages (art created from found objects), paintings and collages. Her works tend to be minimalist through the use of geometric abstraction or color. Her main influence is the
Bauhaus due to their "revolutionary and unconventional approach". Her art has been described as
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Berg presented "The Black Series and The Four
Elements - Selections" in 1979 at the New School Associates Gallery in New York. It was her seventh solo show of paintings in New York City. Berg was part of a three-person show, "Unknown Universes", at
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Artists International" held at the Museum of the Aragonese Castle in Otranto, Italy. Her exhibit presented by Hionas Gallery in 2013 was titled "Phases". In 2015, Berg's exhibit "Siri Berg: Color and Space" opened at Hionas Gallery.
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in 1990. The exhibit included two series of black and white works, "The Four
Elements" and "Empty Spaces". In 1994, she participated in a group of 35 artists who illustrated the biblical poem "Aishet Hayil: Woman of Valor" from the
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Committee Riverdale Chapter's annual Study Group party which focused on the 10 year development of her art. She transitioned from a studio in her home in Riverdale to a studio in the Soho Arts district in 1981.
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when she started painting in 1961. She created the series "Cycle of Life" in 1967 tracing the life cycle from the embryo through youth, maturity, and old age. In 1979, she gave a lecture at
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