David Berkowitz Chicago is a leading contemporary painter based in Chicago, United States. He was born in Aurora on January 30, 1943. He finished elementary school in Aurora and after that moved to Chicago and enrolled in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
His love for painting raised when he suffered an serious spine injury on a football match. David was tied to the bed and then he started painting portraits of patients.
In 1970 he enrolled in the Village group. Immediately he distinguished from the other painters in the group by his specific style. David Berkowitz Chicago incorporates elements of of pumpkins, as a symbol of wealth (“when the pumpkin is big and the corn is big), farm, granary, and bareback horses in his paintings. This makes his peculiar style to be easy recognizable, understandable and easy to be loved.
David gives a special accent on the magical regions of childhood and the fairy-tale horses from his unforgettable collection. His peculiar painting style is easy to recognizable, understandable and easy to be loved.
The colorful display of Berkowitz’s paintings, reflected as a contemplation of unsatisfactory beauty, an independent theme of the world, is an element in his paintings that brings him out from others.
His paintings have been presented on over 300 exhibitions around the world. His biggest exhibition was in the National Gallery of Art.
David Berkowitz Chicago 