These paintings comment on our own cultural glorifications as well as on how our political and cultural landscape is shifting.

They employ­ iconic symbols of personal obsessions such as airstream trailers, geishas, gas pumps, sacred cows, mid-century architecture, hula hoops, painted elephants, swimming pools, fawns, and little girls dressed in tutus.

As the world slides closer and closer to global crises—an environment on the verge of collapse, an economy in which the disparity between rich and poor is ever-widening, an earth threatened by terrorism and nuclear holocaust - the paintings question our imminent future. These works reflect not only fears created by having an ever-increasingly divided nation but also hopes for a post-apocalypse world: perhaps what will remain after devastation could be a Utopia we have collectively imagined rather than the dystopia we fear.  

Lauren Bergman | New York City | 2015

Green Parasol  |  12” x 9” acrylic, litho-coal and ink on paper mounted on board