Nicholas Bergery
618 Ashe Street Key West, FL 33040
(305) 304 4450 (Cell)
nbergery@bellsouth.net
http://colorbynicholas.com

EDUCATION

Undergraduate studies in New York, NY

Parsons School of Design

New School for Social Research

School of Visual Arts



Born in Paris, France.

Franco-American dual National.

Apprenticeships in Paris, Rome, New York.

Assistant to fashion photographer in Paris.

Worked doing Photo Retouching, Dye Transfer

and C printing in various labs in New York.

Various gigs doing projection Art and Light Shows.

Presently living in Key West and New York City.


I am a Digital Impressionist. The fusion of photography and computers allows me to create hybrid art that goes beyond the reproduction of reality, to evoke emotions by means of a personal transformation of representational images.
I am also a colorist. Colors are my private language that I use to create impressions for others to share.
My subjects are Tropical Nature and Urban Nightlife. I am as inspired by Caribbean clouds, vivid parrots, and tropical flowers as by exotic people, Nightlife Fantasy and Halloween parades. Starting with photographic images, I paint and enrich both these worlds in dense, hybrid paintings with strong colors and small strokes.

I create hybrid art prints that combine photography and digital painting. These prints are limited edition fine art of archival quality. I use my past experience with drawing, painting, collage, photography and photochemical retouching and I apply these traditional techniques in the digital domain.

I also juxtapose and meld my photographic and digital images in sequences with transitions. I create storyboard timelines, to be projected into large scale slide shows, for a variety of venues including light show projections, sometimes accompanied by music.