Margot Bergman at Anton Kern Gallery

Chicago-based octogenarian Margot Bergman makes her New York solo debut with highly emotive, expressionist portraits created on canvases found in thrift stores and flea markets and reworked into double portraits. Here, a kindly, elderly face peers out from the forehead of a pouty-lipped blond, perhaps foretelling the younger woman’s future or portraying her internal voice. (At Chelsea’s Anton Kern Gallery through Aug 19th).

Margot Bergman, Wilma Rose, acrylic on found canvas, 30 x 24 inches, 2012.
Margot Bergman, Wilma Rose, acrylic on found canvas, 30 x 24 inches, 2012.