Jake Vanden Berge Reflects on the Impermanence of Beauty in New Print

Jake Vanden Berge is an emerging Los Angeles-based artist who paints striking juxtapositions exploring the hazy threshold between memory and nostalgia. Born in Whittier and entirely self-trained, Vanden Berge's oil compositions are diluted to appear like snapshots racing through the mind, spanning the real to the imagined, from burning suburban houses to images of a doberman pinscher contrasted with a field of chromatic tulips. There is a cinematic quality to the images that Vanden Berge culls. ...