ArtOrg would like to announce the gallery show of Mr. John Conrad Berkey. John is one of the treasures in the world of illustration, and was named by the 104-year-old Society of Illustrators to its Hall of Fame just last year. Other Society Hall of Fame members include Norman Rockwell, N.C. Wyeth, Frederick Remington, and John James Audubon.

We will be showcasing over 50 original works which span the entire career of John Berkey from his early days working as a calendar artist at the Brown and Bigelow company in Minneapolis to his space paintings which have become the archetypical symbols of many science fiction works by Asimov, Heinlein, and others. Previously unseen works from John of the human form will also be shown. The gallery opening will be at 6pm Friday, November 4, 2005 at the ArtOrg Moving Walls Gallery at the riverside entrance to 200 Division Street in downtown Northfield, Minnesota. Further gallery show times and dates in November are to be determined.

A special treat will be the world premier screening of several of John’s experimental video productions. John has taken many of his fully-realized paintings and set them to music, weaving in and out of the images, panning and zooming across one image only to fade in to another. He has thereby created deeply distinctive descriptions of his various works in subject groupings such as American history, space travel and others. These video works will be premiered on Saturday, November 5 at 7pm in Boliou Hall at Carleton College in room 104. Boliou Hall is located on the main campus of Carleton College on north edge of the main campus overlooking Lyman Lakes. Thanks to the Cinema and Media Studies department for the use of their wonderful facilities.