NANCY BERLIN - Considering Change
NANCY BERLIN
May 2 - 18 2026
Artist reception: Saturday, May 09, 5-7
Farm Projects is pleased to present Considering Change, an exhibition of new
paintings and works on paper by Nancy Berlin. The exhibition will be on view from May 2 through May 18, 2025, with an opening reception on Friday, May 9 from 5:00 p.m. The exhibition is presented concurrently with Susan Carr: Little Happiness.
The exhibition brings together primarily new works from two of Berlin's ongoing series: Flight Patterns and Constant Revisions. In Flight Patterns, Berlin begins with pages from vintage bird guides adhered to panel or paper, then builds upon them with taped lines, acrylic paint, and ink to trace the shifting migration paths of bird
species in the face of climate change. In Constant Revisions, she works atop found materials — old atlas pages, outdated encyclopedias, vintage travel books — layering marks derived from proofreaders' symbols and manuscript editing to create a visual chronicle of how knowledge, interpretation, and so-called fact are perpetually subject to revision.
Across both bodies of work, Berlin's process is inseparable from her subject. She builds up surfaces through accumulated layers of painted prints, drawings, and digital photographs, then tears, rips, tapes, and strips them back. Paint and ink are applied and rubbed away; sections are preserved and others are surrendered. The result
is work that embodies, rather than merely depicts, the indiscriminate and relentless nature of change, environmental, political, and personal.
