PODCAST | Cerebral Women: A Conversation with Christine Berry
March 6, 2024 - Phyllis Hollis for Cerebral Women
A Conversation with Christine Berry:
Ep.191 | Christine Berry earned her Bachelors of Art in Art History from Baylor University and her Masters in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of North Texas. She began her career at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and continued on to the Whitney Museum of American Art. Twenty years ago, she shifted from the non-profit sector to the commercial art world.
In 2013, Christine Berry and Martha Campbell founded Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea. The gallery has a fine-tuned program representing artists from Postwar American art, who have been overlooked due to age, race, gender, or geography. This unique perspective has been increasingly recognized by curators, collectors, and the press.
Over the last ten years, Berry Campbell has doubled its roster, staff, and footprint. In 2022, the gallery moved from its original venue to its current 9,000 square foot gallery space at 524 West 26th Street. The gallery represents 34 artists and estates including Lynne Drexler, Perle Fine, Bernice Bing, Frederick Brown, Lilian Thomas Burwell, Nanette Carter, Beverly McIver, and Frank Wimberley.
About Cerebral Women:
Cerebral Women was launched in 2016 as a forum to feature the work of underrepresented visual artists. Utilizing social media platforms such as Instagram, Cerebral Women pairs images of artworks with quotes by notable philosophers, authors, historical geniuses, and intellectuals.
The Cerebral Women Art Talks podcast was launched in January 2020 to further promote and highlight visual artists and art professionals who work at the institutions that feature them. It is a weekly podcast and since its inception, over 100 episodes have been produced. The podcast enables Cerebral Women to expand its mission by providing our audience with a deeper, more direct connection to artists who are often overlooked including artists from the LGBTQ community and those formerly incarcerated.
The Cerebral Women platform emphasizes how ‘art can help us understand our history, our culture, our lives, and the experience of others in a manner that cannot be achieved through other means.
The interviews are viewed as primary research that can be used and referenced in papers and articles. Providing underrepresented artists an opportunity to be academized into history is critical to their sustained success. It is imperative to help normalize documenting and solidifying the contributions of artists into the canon.
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