Born in 1992 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, Nina Jean Berlingeri is a self taught artist. Berlingeri officially established her practice as a New York based artist in 2014, while working from her converted barn studio at the Art Students League of New York’s former Vaclav Vytlacil, “Vyt” Artist Residency.
By 2017, Berlingeri had spent one year studying the light of Nyack from her private studio, then located in the Edward Hopper House, and had reached the mid way point in her decade long mentorship as the understudy of German artist and architect, Fritz Krieger. In 2018, she continued to study the light on the Hudson River more intimately while living in the historic Carson McCullers House; by 2019, the subject of Nina’s work returned to the figure through a volume of roughly 200 paintings, drawings, photographs and poems of her former partner and muse. Berlingeri continues to paint and reside in the Hudson River Valley.
Artist Statement
"My work mirrors my life and the ongoing resonance between my experiences and environment. The deconstruction, distortion, and reinstitution of the figure is regularly evolved through creating a series of multiples- each derived directly from the previous. This enables the distortion of the form to remain malleable and retain its immediacy."