LAURA CREHUET BERMAN Earth Moves
SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART • 2024
SHERRY LEEDY CONTEMPORARY ART PRESENTS:
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108
Gallery Director: Sherry Leedy
Catalog Design: Celina Curry
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Earth Moves
Berman’s abstract images follow their own alluvial logic from the inside out; as fragments build, plates collide, and colors accrete. Time and space prove the strength found in softness and the solidity contained in transparency. Collectively, the works in this exhibition depict a pause in time, a reflection of unconformity.
In essence, my work celebrates the joy of seeing and the beauty of discovery. I have recently spent time seeking vast landscapes as a way to connect with the universals of being. My work reflects the interrelatedness between expanses and details within space, and how even the smallest action can create a cascade of events and phenomena.
My images are composed in a series of iterations. Families of colors, imagery and compositions relate together closely in my work without ever duplicating each other. As layers build, imagery compounds, colors mix, and patterns form. I keep my process of working dynamic and playful so that my images can evolve as they are made, in turn, building entirely new worlds.
-Laura Crehuet Berman
Synergy 44 2024
Collage of monoprints
x 10.5”
10.5”
Synergy 45 2024
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 35 2021
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 24 A 2021
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
25 B 2022
Collage of monoprints
Synergy
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 18 2019
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 24 B 2021
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 34 2021
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 39 2022
Collage of monoprints
10” x 10”
Synergy 22 2020
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
25 A 2021
Collage of monoprints
Synergy
10.5” x 10.5”
Synergy 31 2021
Collage of monoprints
10.5” x 10.5”
Umbra YM2 2023
Monoprint
30” x 30”
Umbra YM4 2023
Monoprint
30” x 30”
Umbra YM6 2023
Monoprint 30” x 30”
Gem H4
2021
Monoprint
15” x 15”
Gem L13 2021 Monoprint
36” x 36”
Ravel 2 2023
Lithograph
Ravel 1 2023
Lithograph
25.5” x 20.5”
25.5” x 20.5”
Ravel 3 2023
Lithograph
25.5” x 20.5”
Tectonics C 2023
Collage of monoprints
37.25” x 37.75”
Opposite: detail
Tectonics 1
2023
Collage of monoprints
30.5” x 38”
2 2023
Collage of monoprints
Tectonics
38” x 30.5”
Tectonics 3 2023
Collage of monoprints
30.5” x 38”
Opposite: detail
Red Centre 1
2024
8” x 8”
on paper
Red Centre 3
2024
Acrylic on paper
8” x 8”
Acrylic
Red Centre 4
2024
Acrylic on paper
8” x 8”
Red Centre 5
2024
Acrylic on paper
8” x 8”
From left: Tafos 31, Tafos 35, Tafos 36
All works monoprint on canvas 2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
From left: Tafos 39, Tafos 30, Tafos 34
All works monoprint on canvas 2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
Tafos 3
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 11
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 6
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 9
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 5
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 7
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 8
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 4
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
Tafos 1
Monoprint on canvas
2024
10” x 10” x 1.5”
28
Monoprint on canvas 2024
Tafos
38” x 24” x 1.5”
29
Monoprint on canvas 2024
Tafos
38” x 24” x 1.5”
Tafos 32
Monoprint on canvas
2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
Tafos 37
Monoprint on canvas
2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
Tafos 38
Monoprint on canvas
2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
Tafos 33
Monoprint on canvas
2024
18” x 18” x 1.5”
Earth Moves 3
Acrylic on canvas
2024
40” x 45” x 2”
Earth Moves 2
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 30” x 2”
Earth Moves 1
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 30” x 2”
Laura Crehuet Berman
b. Barcelona, Spain
lives and works in Kansas City www.lauracrehuetberman.com
Selected Exhibitions (solo*)
2024 Color Moves Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Kansas City, MO *
Contexture: Laura Berman, Carrie Crawford, Gail Tarantino Uprise Art, New York City, NY
Exploration of Colour Centre for Print Research, Univ. of West England, Bristol, UK (title tba) Cura Contemporary, Morgan Hill, CA (November) *
2023 Contoured Color Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines IA
Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Art+Place+Community: 10 Years with Good Hart Artist Residency, CTAC Galleries, Petoskey, MI
Sharp-Sighted Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art Kansas City, MO
Artful Prints Long View Gallery Washington, D.C.
Flatbed Press: A Selection of Contemporary Prints Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, TX
31 by 12 Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking Austin, TX
Meeting of Makers, Merging of Space Clara Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, KY
Backstory: The Artist’s Process Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
We Talk About the Weather Flat Mtn Press Kalamazoo, MI
2022 Temporalities Flatbed Press Gallery Austin, TX *
Carving with Color Sugarlift Gallery, New York City, NY
S2:E1 The Anniversary Show El Paso Framing Co, El Paso, TX
Meeting of Makers, Merging of Space Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University
Split Practices Bristol, UK
Overlap Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Aggregates The Foundry Art Centre St. Charles, MO *
Color Cure Zinc Contemporary Seattle, WA
Sunshine and Shadow: Textiles in Contemporary Art Troost Gardens, Kansas City, MO
Better Together: ReFresh XI Long View Gallery Washington, D.C.
Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Beautiful World(s): KCAI Biennial H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2020 FUSE Weinberger Fine Art Kansas City, MO *
Printmaking in the Rockies and on the Great Plains Brinton Museum, Big Horn, WY
Parallels: Annual Landscape Show Olson-Larsen Gallery Des Moines, IA
2018 Chromatic Space Long View Gallery Washington, D.C. *
9th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro 2018 Douro Museum of Art, Portugal
Contemporary Prints Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO
First Annual Invitational Rural|Urban Art Exhibit Volland Store, Volland, KS
2019 Post-Printing: 2nd International Printmaking Triennial China Academy of Arts Musuem, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Soft Geometry Weinberger Fine Art Kansas City, MO
Organic Forms Olson-Larsen Gallery Des Moines, IA
2017 Setting Space Weinberger Fine Art Kansas City, MO *
Once and Then Truman State University Gallery Kirksville, MO *
2016
Unmoored Geographies: Works from the Permanent Collection Ulrich Art Museum, Wichita, KS
3rd Global Print Exhibition Douro Museum of Art, Peso da Régua, Portugal
Ebb and Flow Long View Gallery Washington, D.C. *
Statements on Nature: A Survey of Printmaking Today Maui Arts & Cultural Center Kahului, HI
2016 Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2015 YOU PEOPLE Haw Contemporary Kansas City, MO
2014
KCAI Foundation 50th Year Anniversary Exhibition Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Kansas City, MO
Pulsar Haw Contemporary Kansas City, MO *
Coalescence Long View Gallery Washington, D.C. *
Rotations Main Gallery, Univerisity of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO *
Story, Structure and Flow Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City
2013 Ex Astris The Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs Matfield Green, KS *
Res Gallery 121, Leu Center for Visual Arts, Belmont University Nashville, TN *
Unbound: 3-D Printmaking Untitled Artspace, Oklahoma City, OK
2012 On, Over, In, Through Gorecki Gallery, Benedicta Art Center St. Joseph, MN *
Umbras Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University Emporia, KS *
Color Schooled Group Exhibition Long View Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Beyond Printmkaing III Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX Juror: Melanie Yazzie
Stand Out Prints Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN Jurors: Susan Inglett & Mark Pascale
2010 Ink & Clay 36 Kellogg Gallery, CSU Pomona, Pomona, CA
2011 Chromata Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Boone, NC *
Converging Collections Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Inked Two: a group printmakers exhibition Walnut Ink Gallery, Michigan City, IN
Currency Part 1: Modes of Expression Visual Arts Gallery, Univ. of Alabama, Birmingham, AL
2009 Re:Collection Dolphin Gallery Kansas City, MO *
Imprint University of Kansas Art & Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Book Columbia College, Chicago
2008 ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch at the Aspen Art Museum Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Kansas City Flatfiles Exhibition H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
New Prints 2008/Spring International Print Center New York & NY School of Interior Design, NY, NY
Honolulu Printmakers 80th Annual Exhibition Academy Art Center, Honolulu, HI
2007 Looking West Belger Arts Center, Kansas City, MO
Falun Print Triennial 2007 Dalarnas Mu seum, Falun, Sweden
At the Edge Grafikens Hus, Mariefred, Sweden
Further: Artists from the Book: Printmaking at the Edge Galerie Kunstraum Wohlleb, Vienna, Austria
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, Silicon Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Printstallations and Praintings Green Door Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Here and Now: Kansas City Regional Prints Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
Gallery Representation
Cade Tompkins Projects (Providence, RI), Cura Contemporary (Morgan Hill, CA), Long View Gallery (Washington, D.C.), Olsen-Larsen Gallery (Des Moines, IA), Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO), Uprise Art (New York City, NY)
Fine Art Publishers
Bedrock Art Editions (formerly, Kansas City, MO), Círculo del Arte (Barcelona, Spain) Flatbed Press (Austin, TX), Flash Flood Prints (Tulsa, OK), Pele Prints ( St. Louis, MO)
Museum and Private Collections
Beach Museum of Art Manhattan, KS, Belger Art Collection Kansas City, MO, Central Library Kansas City, MO, College of William and Mary Williamsburg, Virginia, Hallmark Fine Art Collection Kansas City, MO, Mulvane Art Museum Topeka, KS, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO, Racine Art Museum Racine, WI, Rhode Island School
exof Design Museum Providence, RI, Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas, Sprint Art Collection Kansas City, MO, Thrivent Collection Minneapolis, MN, Wichita Falls Museum Texas
Public and Corporate Collections
BKD Kansas City, MO, BH Management Des Moines, IA, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Capital One Art Collection Richmond, VA, Children’s Mercy Reseach Institute Kansas City, MO, Fidelity Investments Boston, MA, Kansas Leadership Center Wichita, KS, Mayo Clinic Rochester, WI, Microsoft Boston, MA Missouri Bank Kansas City, MO, New York Presbyterian Hospital New York, NY, Nestle Purina, Rosewood Hotels & Resorts Abu Dhabi, UAE, Sloan Kettering Hospital New York, NY, Twitter, University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, MO
Archives
Artist File Initiative Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City, MO
Professional Artist Network Speedball Art
Selected Honors and Awards
2024 Fulbright Scholar University of Canberra, Australia
2023 Distinguished Achievement Award Kansas City Art Institute
2022 Finalist : Women United Art Prize Czech Republic
Faculty Development Grant Award Kansas City Art Institute (also 2018, 2017, 2013, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2004, 2002)
2021 Finalist: Mid-Career Printmaker Award Southern Graphics Council International
2019 Printmaker of the Year Award Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art, Cincinatti, OH
2018 Finalist: Sustainable Arts Foundation Award San Francisco, CA
Semifinalist 92nd International Competition The Print Center Philadelphia, PA
2017 Inspiration Grant Award Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City and ArtsKC Fund (also 2011, 2008)
2016 The Kansas City Collection IV, Juried Art Collection Program, Kansas City, MO
2012 Juror’s Award Stand Out Prints Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
Juror’s Choice Award Beyond Printmaking III Landmark Arts, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX
Selected Artist Lectures
2025 The Colour Research Society of Canada (February)
2024 University of Hawai’i at Hilo (October)
The Australian National University Canberra, Australia University of Canberra Australia
University of West England Bristol
2022 Graduate Colloquium, Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL
New York University Shanghai Shanghai, China (virtual)
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
2021 Appalachian State University Boone NC
2020 New York University / Shanghai (Shanghai, China)
Parsons School of Design / The New School New York, NY
Bowdoin College Brunsick, Maine
2019 University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR
2017 Ulrich Art Museum Wichita, KS
Truman State University Kirksville, MO
2015 Anderson Ranch Art Center Snowmass Village, CO
2014 Nerman Museum of Contempoary Art Overland Park, KS
University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO
2013 Belmont University Nashville, TN
University of Alabama Birmingham, AL
2012 College of Saint Benedict/St. John’s University St. Joseph, MN University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN
2011 University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
2009 University of Kansas Lawrence, KS
2008 Boise State University Boise, ID
Honolulu Printmakers, Academy Art Center Honolulu, HI
Selected Studio Residencies
Art Print Residence Barcelona, Spain (2025), Megalo Print Studios Canberra, Australia (2024), Jenny Robinson Print Studio Sydney, Australia (2024), Good Hart Artist Residency Michgan (2021), Pele Prints St. Louis (2022-2009, multiple years), Frans Masereel Centrum Belgium (2011), Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop NYC (2007), Can Serrat Art Center Spain (2007), Ox-Bow Michigan (2005), Anderson Ranch Arts Center Colorado (2002), Artspace Raleigh (2002), Artist-in-Atlantic Center for the Arts Florida (2000).
Books
Blackwood, Eve. Do More Art: Print Orion Books: London, 2025. (forthcoming) Estrada, Tara Carpenter (Ed.) An Artist and A Mother Demeter Press: Ontario, Canada. 2023. Fine, Aaron Color Theory: A Critical Introduction Bloomsbury: London, 2021. Standish, Stephanie & Rooney, Ashley E. American Print Makers. Schiffer Publishing, 2014. James Ehlers, Michael Ehlbeck and Heather Muise. A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking Lazymuse Productions, 2012.
Noyce, Richard. Printmaking at the Edge A & C Black: London, 2006. Carson, David & McLuhan, Marshall. The Book of Probes Ginko Press: New York, 2003.
Selected Catalogs
Fuse Exhibition Catalog with Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO (April 2020).
Once & Then: Laura Berman Truman State University Art Gallery, Kirksville, MO (October 2017). The Kansas City Collection: 2016-2017 The Collectors Fund, (2016-2017), p. 12-15.
Kinetic: Highlights From the Polsenelli Art Collection Polsenelli PC, Kansas City, MO (2015), p. 22.
A Survey of Contemporary Prints Wellington Gray Gallery, East Carolina Univ., Greenville, NC (October 2010).
Monumental Ideas in Miniature Book traveling exhibition of artists books, 2008-2012. ARAC@AAM: Anderson Ranch Arts Center at the Aspen Art Museum Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (December 2008).
Youngsook Song The Edge: Printmaking at the Edge The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea (Nov. 2007).
FaluTiennalen 2007, Samtida Grafik, Contemporary Print Art Dalarnas Museum, Falun, Sweden (2007).
Selected Bibliography
Leon, D. “New Art Coming to KCI” Johnson County Lifestyle Magazine (February 2023) pgs 1620 & cover.
Weiss, Jamie, “Prairie Village Artist Prints Art for New KCI Terminal”, KMBC9/ABC News, Kansas City: 23 November, 2022. Television.
Uppercase Magazine (Issue 50: July / August / September 2021), pg 4-5 and back cover.
“Color Cure: A Vibrant, Rejuvenating Art Exhibit at Zinc Contemporary”, seattleite.com (May 17, 2021).
“Inspired by Nature, Led by Colour”, Pressing Matters: Issue 14, (January 2021)
“Inside the Studio: Laura Berman on ‘Gems’ “ Uprise Art www.upriseart.com (August 2020)
Waxman, Lori. “Laura Berman” Quarantine TImes quarantinetimes.org (13 July 2020).
“Studio Visit: Laura Berman” Olson Larsen Galleries: online blog olsonlarsen.com (7 July 2020).
Self, Dana. “Laura Berman” KC Studio (November/December 2017), p. 44-45.
Jenkins, Mark “In the Galleries: Laura Berman” Washington Post (August 4, 2016).
“Laura Berman” www.thejealouscurator.com (13 July 2016).
Meara, James “An Interview with Pele Prints” The Hand, Issue 10. Kansas City, MO (October 2015) p. 41.
Jenkins, Mark “In the Galleries: Laura Berman” Washington Post (August 2, 2014).
Cateforis, David “Laura Berman, James Brinsfield have two striking shows at Haw Contemporary” Kansas City Star (May 5, 2014), Preview, p. 19-20
“Exhibitions of Note: Ex Astris” Art in Print (September-October 2013, Vol. 3, No. 3) p. 49-50.
“Laura Berman: Juegos Audaces con Formas y Colores” Círculo del Arte: Revista 70 Barcelona, Spain (Invierno 2013).
Ishmael, Amelia “Laura Berman: Kansas City” Art Papers (July/August 2009) p. 55-56.
“Rock Collection Inspires New Series of Prints” KCUR Arts (13 February 2009) Laura Spencer, KCUR:
Kansas City.
Sullivan, Maureen “Between a Rock and an Art Place: Color rocks the art of printmaker Laura Berman” Spaces Kansas City (February 2009) p. 74-79.
Oskenhorn, Stewart “Connecting the Pots: Anderson Ranch and Aspen Art Museum” Aspen Times (31 Oct. 2008) Cover image and sectionAE, p. B5-B7.
Murphy-Price, Althea “Printing the Edges: Defining Print within Contemporary Installation” Contemporary Impressions: Journal of the American Print Alliance (Spring/Summer 2008) p. 24-27.
Kiyabe, Sue “Illuminating Colors” Honolulu Advertiser Honolulu, HI (March 2, 2008).
Education
MFA Tulane University New Orleans, LA
BFA Alfred University Alfred, NY
Biography
Laura Crehuet Berman is a Spanish-American artist who creates images that layer time, space, form and color together. The natural world inspires her, and there is a focus on play, improvisation, and relational dynamics in her work.
Berman has created site-specific exhibitions and exhibited her print work in over 150 exhibitions at galleries and museums around the country and internationally. Her prints are widely collected and she has made commissioned work for a number of institutions and public collections. Berman has worked as an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Colorado), Frans Masereel Centrum (Belgium), Atlantic Center for the Arts (Florida) and Can Serrat Artist Center (Spain), among others, and she has been a visiting artist and lecturer at over 45 institutions around the world.
Her work has been featured in the books Contemporary American Printmakers by Rooney/ Stanish, Printmaking at the Edge by Richard Noyce, A Survey of Contemporary Printmaking by Ehlers/Ehlbeck/Muise, An Artist and A Mother by Carpenter-Estrada/Somsen/Buteyn, and Color Theory: A Critical Introduction by Aaron Fine (which features her work on the book cover). Berman has worked with a number of fine print and commercial publishers around the world, including Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Austin), Círculo del Arte (Barcelona), Flash Flood Prints (Tulsa), and Pele Prints (St. Louis), where she has a longstanding relationship in collaborative publishing.
Laura Berman is a Professor at the Kansas City Art Institute, where she has taught in the Printmaking Department since 2002. She is a Founding Member of the Art Brand Alliance, author of the ongoing online series of artist interviews, Reflections on Color and Printmaking, and together with her husband, she runs Prairieside Cottage and Outpost, a family-friendly artist’s retreat in the Flint Hills region of Matfield Green, Kansas, USA.
