Roger Berry
artist's statement

My work stems from an ongoing investigation of the relationship of sculpture to the apparent movement of the sun. The forms of these pieces are all contained within the forms described by the sun in its yearly travels. Each piece presents a deliberate harmony between its static elements and its moving shadows. While each piece may be viewed as static sculpture, their full forms are contained in the slow interplay of shadow to form from dawn to dusk, through the yearly cycle

My current sculptures are fragments of interlocking spheres. They grow from a premise or first move, one conic band joining another. Each subsequent move adds form and limits to the whole. The finished piece is a balance of the sculptural intent and the alignments of the spheres.

Roger Berry
Born: Chico, California, 1950

Education:
A.B., Raymond College, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 1972

Solo Exhibitions:
“Metal Sculpture”, Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2004
JAYJAY, Sacramento, CA May 2003
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2002
Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Sierra College, Rocklyn, CA, 1997
Esprit Park, San Francisco, CA, 1989-1990
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1984, 1982
Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1981
Selected Group JAYJAY, Sacramento, Ca 2004
JAYJAY, Sacramento, CA Fall 2002
Exhibitions: Triangle Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2000
Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago IL 1997
Kouros Gallery, New York, New York, 1997
Kouros Sculpture Center, Ridgefield, CT, 1990-1999
Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, 1988
Civic Center Plaza San Francisco, CA, 1987
Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA, 1985
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1985, 1984
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1984
"Project Sculpture", Arrowhead Marsh, Oakland, CA, 1982
"Sculpture '82", Palo Alto, CA, 1982
University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, 1982
Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1980
Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, 1979
Center for the Visual Arts Oakland, CA, 1979

Public Work:
“Perspective” Current Project for City of Cupertino, CA
"Resilience"Novato Community Hospital, Spring 2001
"The Four Seasons" City of Cupertino, CA Fall 2002
"Solar Rose” Emeryville Civic Center, Emeryville Ca. Spring 2001
"My Son", City of Davis CA. Pending.
March Lane Underpass Projects, Stockton, CA. Completion Fall 2001
"Chabot Solar Theater" Oakland, CA, 2000. "Emergence", Hewlett-Packard Labs Bristol, England 1999.
"Portrait of a DNA Sequence", Division of Biological Sciences, U.C. Davis, CA. 1998
"Sycamore Site" Woodland, CA 1997
"Revival" Hotel Woodland, Woodland, CA 1996
"St. Rose of Lima Park, Gateway" Sacramento, CA, 1996
"Ibis", Continental Pacific Bank, Vacaville, CA, 1992
"Eclipse", Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA, 1991
"Rising Wave", Oyster Point Park,East Bay Regional Parks, San Leandro, CA 1990
"Sisyphus", Civic Center, Dublin, CA, 1990
"Gaze", Natoma Station Park, Folsom, CA, 1990
"Waterwall", Plaza Park Garage, Sacramento, CA, 1992
"Phoebus", UCD Medical Center, Sacramento, CA, 1988
"Oculus", State of California Dept. of Justice , Sacramento, CA, 1987
"Shadow of a Point", Peninsula Office Park, 2929 Campus Drive, San Mateo, CA. San Mateo, CA, 1987
Vallecito School Playground, San Rafael, CA, 1986-1987
"Melquiades", Koll Center, San Jose, CA, 1985
"Tau", 160 Spear St. San Francisco, CA, 1984
"Persephone", Darlington House, Toledo, OH, 1983
"Fujimihara", Columbia Park, Torrance, CA, 1983
"Duplex Cone", Arrowhead Marsh, East Bay Regional Parks, Oakland, CA, 1982
"Rain Dragon", Lakeridge Jr. High School, Sumner, WA, 1982
"Skypointing", Optochrome Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA, 1982
"Djinn", Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA, 1979
"Solar Tracer, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1977

Special Projects and Honors:
President, Crocker Art Museum Association Board of Directors, Sacramento, CA, Current
Senior Fellow, American Leadership Forum.
Arts Masterplan Consultant, San Francisco International Airport
Expansion, San Francisco, CA, 1994-5
Panel Participant, Symposium, "Giving Transportation a sense of Community" Sponsored by Cal Trans, Los Angeles, May 1993
Visiting Instructor in Sculpture, University of California at Davis 1989-1990
Design Team Member, Embarcadero Parkway Master Plan, San Francisco, CA, 1988-1990
Member, California Arts Council, Art in Public Buildings Advisory Panel, 1988-1990
Board of Directors, Public Art Works (Interarts), San Rafael, CA, 1988
Artist Participant, Alcatraz Concept Plan Workshop, GGNRA Park Association, 1987
"Fan Blades", Visitor Center NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, 1984
"Source", Collaboration with Helen Escobedo (Sculptor, Mexico), San Francisco, CA, 1985
Fellow, Djerassi Foundation, SMlP Ranch, Woodside, CA, 1983