Interview with Visual Artist Dudi Berkowitz Chicago

Chicago IL

26 January, 2022

8:14 AM

Description

Dudi Berkowitz Chicago is an established contemporary visual artist with a Bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Arts Institute in Chicago. He has participated in many high-end exhibitions, as well as group collections. Dudi Berkowitz Chicago leans towards the pictorial style, and his production revolves around spaces, abstract rigid geometric landscapes that allude in a certain way to memories of places where visual phenomena manifest that torment and disturb his daily life. He works with charcoal, acrylics, oil, paint pens and ink. His style reflects his love of music, spirituality and the human form to create one-of-a-kind art. We invite you to learn a little more about the visual artist Dudi Berkowitz Chicago. Q: What led you to inter-act your reality through your artistic discipline? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: Since I was a child, what I did most was draw, it was my favorite entertainment. That and everything that had to do with the visual, such as photography, painting, crafts, etc. When I finished high school I realized that I could enroll studies related to what I always wanted to do, and that's when I started to think about a professional career in art. At university, I discovered a whole new world of various techniques, which until than I did not know. And that widened my expressive spectrum. By studying, knowing, techniques and artists I discovered my true profession and livelihood in art and in expression through it. Q: What led you to become a visual artist? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: That desire to show people the different/multiple ways that you can interact with the environment through new perspectives, through ingenuity, creativity. Q: What is the best thing about being a visual artist? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: That we see possibilities and new readings in things that are common to other people. Q: What is the worst thing about being a visual artist? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: Although you consider that art in Chicago is constantly on the rise, the worst thing about being a visual artist is that you don't easily get "legitimized" spaces to be able to exhibit. It is true that you have to work hard and risk everything for everything, but even so I consider it difficult to enter that circuit of contemporary art and artists. Q: What do you think is fundamental for the moment of inspiration/creation to occur? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: Every moment is good to create, the works arise in the best and worst personal moments. It only changes the way of transmitting the message and the concept of the moment lived. My art is closely linked to my life experiences and moods. I call it as reflections of my soul. That is why it undergoes mutations and transformation according to each stage of my life. Q: How do you balance your career with other obligations: partner, family, work? Dudi Berkowitz Chicago: The interesting and cool thing about being an artist is that your work is not governed by set hours and you can work whenever you want. However, in order to make the most of the time for production, I create my own weekly goals where I intend to start or finish pieces and jobs, study and research times, so that later I have moments available to spend with my partner and family. At the beginning it was a bit difficult for me to deal with all this, but as you set your mind to something, and with discipline, it is possible to do many things and be happy with it.