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A new publication featuring recent oil paintings by California-based artist Helen Berggruen, including those exhibited at Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco in 2025. The Song Inside of Things includes a foreword by Mary Kate Tankard, an extended essay by Craig Burnett and an interview by Jeff Gunderson. These explore Berggruen’s wide-ranging subjects, her musical, literary, historic and artistic influences, and her working processes. The book forms part of the Hurtwood Artist & Gallery Series, offering an in-depth insight into the practice and thinking of some of the most engaging artists working nationally and internationally today.

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After a youthful life on stage working with such internationally acclaimed directors as Robert Wilson and Peter Schumann, in the early 1980s Helen Berggruen stepped away from the theatre and began painting. Primary influences include Vincent van Gogh and early 20th-century French and German modernism. Based in San Francisco, Berggruen’s work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berlin, London, Southwest France, throughout Iowa and at the Demuth Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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