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line.
"I have been getting more
and more interested in the
structural concerns of my
paintings, their composi-
tion and basic forms. There
are still certain narrative
elements," he said.
"I'm concerned with
things like mass, weight and density. If
I do a skyscraper, it's like they are
made out of lead. I exaggerate the
form and paint them without any
sense of lightness or airiness. I look at
the outside forms as if there was noth-
ing inside."
Berke chose urban areas as his pri-
mary subject matter.
"If you're a landscape painter, you
do your local landscape," he said. "I
live in a city, so the skyscrapers of
Detroit are my landscapes."
Berke said his initial plans for his
paintings often change as his work
progresses.
"Once you have the basic idea or
sketch and put the first brushstroke or
layer on the canvas, you're dealing
with the interaction of paint on can-
vas. In oil painting, texture is as
important as color.
"You put down an initial layer as an
under-painting and it starts to create a
texture," said Berke. "Then you see
things in it and put on more layers
and the texture starts to build. It's a
constant process of interaction with
the patterns of brushstrokes." Ft

This
1988 work,
"Refugee Ship,"
. based on the
"Exodus," is
the largest work
in the show.

Berke, a native Detroiter
who grew up in Oak Park,
said his Jewish heritage has
played an important role in
his work.
"The largest painting in
the show is called Refugee
Ship. It's based on the actu-
al ship Exodus," said Berke
of the vessel made famous by the Otto
Preminger film of the same name.
"It was part of the concern I've had
with the social and political state of
the world, especially with the plight of
refugees and displaced people.
Berke believes in constantly chal-
lenging himself by exploring different
styles, techniques and subject matters.
His experiments have often turned
into tomorrow's art trends.
In the late 1960s Berke was at the
forefront of the neo-expressionist
movement. Neo-expressionism was an
intensely emotional art form with a
dreamlike quality often featuring dis-
torted figures. The movement marked
a rejection of abstract art and a return
to a portrayal of the human form in a
vivid manner that ignored standard
methods of composition and design.
Berke also was on the cutting edge
of artists in the 1980s who were inter-
ested in expressing social realities in
their work.
"A lot of my work has a political
angle that set me apart from the other
neo-expressionists," said Berke.

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Cityscapes

The artist's style has continued to
evolve, with his new focus centered on
buildings and landscapes instead of
portraits.
One of Berke's paintings in the Cass
Cafe show exemplifies his new con-
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paints the monumental skyscrapers of

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