
Exhibition Dates: February 28 – March 30, 2025
Opening Reception: February 27, 5 – 8 PM
Gallery: Locals Only Gallery
About the exhibition:
gone over… takes its name from a repeated line in Lisa Berley’s poem UnChosen, encapsulating the unpredictable waves of grief and the collapse and expansion of time that follow profound loss. This deeply personal exhibition invites viewers into a collage of loss, blending fragments of the artist’s life with space for the viewers own interpretation. Through this shared exploration, gone over… reflects the beauty and heartbreak of community—how connection, understanding, and support emerge from the mingling of individual and collective pain.
Berley’s hybrid works, which combine visual erasure poetry and mixed media on paper, present a nonlinear approach to storytelling and memory. By redacting and transforming found words and images, she crafts reductive fragments that echo the layered complexities of her grieving process.
About the artist:
Lisa Berley is a visual artist and poet whose career began as Art Director at KQED TV in San Francisco after earning a BFA in Painting and Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. A pioneer in art and media, Berley helped develop early computer graphics and animation systems for television as an artist for Aurora Systems.
After eleven years in San Francisco, Berley moved back to New York, shifting her focus to creating mixed-media works on paper while raising a family. In 2016, following the sudden accidental loss of her younger son, her artistic practice evolved into a deeply personal exploration of grief. Using abstract collage techniques and visual erasure poetry, she developed a method to process and express the nonlinear nature of loss. Her poetry manuscript, finding Nefesh, and her visual works stand as testaments to the power of art in navigating profound tragedy. Berley currently resides in Boulder, Colorado.