Wallace Berman (US, 1926-1976)
Scope, 1965. Verifax collage on board 31¾ x 27½ in. (80.6 x 69.8 cm.). The Dennis Hopper Collection
The experience his grid pieces generates recalls channel surfing, Web browsing or listening to a random selection of downloaded songs. If you want to make sense of things, you have to do that for yourself.
Where Warhol turned to silkscreen, Berman used a Verifax machine — an early version of the photocopier — to print variously sized grids of similar but distinct images.
https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wallace-berman-1926-1976-302-c-b2b4a50e42 Wallace Berman’s Verifax art: Like Web surfing before the Internet https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-wallace-berman-kohn-gallery-20160513-snap-htmlstory.html












