Signs and Wonders
Justin Bergin
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4th Floor, 1106 Santa Fe St
Kansas City
Justin Bergin paints from a private iconography. Greek myth, candles, feet, the wounds of the stigmata, and other Christian symbols return from painting to painting. Think of them as a personal alphabet, a set of signs the artist arranges and rearranges. The logic is there, even if you can't paraphrase it. A candle and a bare foot are old devotional images. The myth and the wound come from different traditions. Put together, they don't settle into one meaning. The sacred and the bodily share the same picture.
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Helpless Joy,
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas, diptych,
16 x 20 in

Untitled Vision (On God),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
12 x 12 in

Glory (In the Field of Love),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
16 x 20 in

Relic (Camp Figure),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
14 x 18 in

Miracle of Candles (Stigmata),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
14 x 18 in

Signs and Wonders,
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
30 x 40 in

Miracle of Candles,
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
20 x 16 in

Memorabilia (Garden of Nostalgia),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic on canvas,
20 x 16 in

Memorabilia (Garden of Nostalgia),
Justin Bergin,
Acrylic and collaged canvas on panel,
11.25 x 12.75 in

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View

Signs and Wonders
, Installation View