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Contact: Clara Berta
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Award-Winning Abstract Artist Clara Berta Brings Emotion, Color, and Contemporary Vision to Nantucket in Summer Exhibition with Tina Cobelle-Sturges
NANTUCKET, MA — June 29, 2026 — This July, one of America's most celebrated summer art destinations becomes the setting for an engaging conversation between two distinctly different artistic voices. From July 3 through July 15, 2026, The Gallery at Four India presents a two-person exhibition featuring internationally collected abstract artist Clara Berta alongside Tina Cobelle-Sturges, bringing together expressive abstraction and rhythmic architectural landscapes in a thoughtfully curated exhibition that explores the relationship between emotion, memory, structure, and place.
This exhibition invites visitors to experience two complementary artistic perspectives that approach beauty from entirely different directions while ultimately sharing a common goal—to encourage viewers to slow down, observe more deeply, and connect with the emotional power of art.
Based in Laguna Beach, California, Berta has built an international reputation for creating emotionally charged abstract paintings distinguished by luminous color, dramatic movement, and richly layered surfaces. Drawing inspiration from her Hungarian heritage and her personal life experiences, her work reflects a lifelong commitment to expressing what cannot easily be communicated through words alone.
Her paintings have found homes in private and corporate collections throughout the United States and internationally, earning recognition for their ability to evoke deeply personal emotional responses while remaining intentionally open to individual interpretation.
That ability to communicate beyond language recently received recognition outside the traditional gallery world. Berta's short documentary, An Artist's Journey, was honored with the Best Short Documentary Award at the Silicon Beach Film Festival, highlighting not only her work as a visual artist but also the compelling story behind her creative process. The film explores the transformative role art has played throughout her life and offers viewers an intimate look into the emotional journey that informs every canvas she creates.
The centerpiece of the Nantucket exhibition is Berta's monumental 60 x 48-inch painting, The Heart of the Bloom.
The large-scale work serves as both a visual centerpiece and an emotional anchor for the exhibition. Built through countless transparent and opaque layers, the painting radiates energy through sweeping gestures, vibrant fields of magenta, and luminous passages of white that appear to emerge from beneath the surface.
Rather than depicting flowers literally, The Heart of the Bloom captures the emotional experience of witnessing nature at the precise moment when life reaches its fullest expression. The composition balances intensity with stillness, inviting viewers to contemplate both the explosive vitality and delicate impermanence of the summer season.
Berta's distinctive process involves repeatedly building, scraping, carving, and repainting the canvas, allowing earlier layers to remain visible beneath newer ones. The resulting depth creates a sense of history within each painting, mirroring the accumulated experiences that shape every individual life.
"My work is a process of unearthing," says Berta. "In The Heart of the Bloom, I wanted to capture the explosive, fleeting beauty of summer. There is a specific kind of magic that happens when those layers of magenta and white collide. The magenta carries the emotional weight while the white becomes the breath within the composition. It is about discovering balance between intensity and stillness while creating a visual rhythm that feels both grounded and expansive."
For Berta, abstraction is not about avoiding representation but about creating space for viewers to bring their own memories, emotions, and experiences into the work. Each painting becomes an invitation rather than an answer, encouraging reflection instead of instruction.
The exhibition gains additional depth through the work of Tina Cobelle-Sturges, whose paintings offer a compelling visual counterpoint to Berta's expressive abstractions.
Recognized for her vibrant interpretations of architecture, landscape, and built environments, Cobelle-Sturges creates compositions that celebrate rhythm, geometry, color, and the joyful relationship between human design and the natural world. Her work reflects careful observation of place while maintaining a lively sense of movement and optimism.
Together, the artists establish a visual dialogue that moves between inner and outer worlds.
Where Berta investigates emotion, intuition, and the invisible landscape of human experience, Cobelle-Sturges celebrates the physical environment through carefully structured compositions and architectural rhythm. The result is an exhibition that encourages visitors to experience contemporary art through two complementary yet distinctly individual perspectives.
"Sharing this space with Tina—an artist whose work speaks so elegantly to structure and environment—creates a beautiful rhythmic contrast for viewers," Berta says. "I believe our work invites people to experience the world through two different lenses. One celebrates the beauty that surrounds us every day, while the other explores the emotional landscapes we all carry within us."
Beyond the paintings themselves, visitors will encounter an immersive gallery environment enhanced by The Gallery at Four India's renowned collection of light-refracting glass sculpture, creating an atmosphere in which painting, sculpture, color, and light interact throughout the exhibition space.
For both longtime collectors and first-time visitors to Nantucket's thriving arts community, the exhibition offers an opportunity to experience contemporary artwork that speaks equally to visual beauty and emotional connection.
As Nantucket welcomes thousands of visitors during the Independence Day holiday and throughout the summer season, this exhibition provides a quiet and reflective destination amid the island's bustling cultural calendar. Guests are invited to step away from the activity of downtown and spend time with artwork designed to encourage contemplation, conversation, and discovery.
Opening Reception
The public is invited to attend the exhibition's opening reception on Friday, July 3, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. Guests will have the opportunity to meet both artists, learn about their creative processes, view the complete exhibition, and enjoy an evening celebrating contemporary art in one of Nantucket's premier gallery spaces.
Exhibition Details
Exhibition Dates: July 3-15, 2026
Location: The Gallery at Four India
4 India Street, Second Floor
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Gallery Hours:
Monday-Saturday: 10:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Sunday: Noon-4:00 p.m.
Admission: Free and open to the public.
For additional information, interview requests, or high-resolution images, please contact Clara Berta at [email protected] or visit https://ClaraBerta.com.
Contact Info:
Name: Clara Berta
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Organization: Clara Berta Studio
Address: 332 Forest Avenue, Laguna Beach, California 92651, United States
Phone: +1-818-692-0465
Website: https://bertaart.com
Release ID: 89196563