Artist: John Opper

Berry Campbell presents a focus exhibition of paintings by John Opper (1908-1994). In Focus: John Opper features three paintings spanning three decades of the artist's career.

Opper was active as a painter for over six decades and was an early member of the New York School. Over the course of his career, he evolved from creating abstract gestural works, in which he drew inspiration from the natural world, to a pure form of abstraction. He stated in 1990: “I orchestrate color, line, and shape. My whole purpose is to produce an aesthetic response.” He held the conviction that “art is its own experience. It bespeaks a sublime relationship between the artist and his work.”