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Wallace Berman was born on 18 February, 1926 in Staten Island, New York, U.S., is an American artist (1926–1976). Discover Wallace Berman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 50 years old?

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Age 50 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 18 February 1926
Birthday 18 February
Birthplace Staten Island, New York, U.S.
Date of death 18 February, 1976
Died Place Topanga Canyon, California, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1926

Wallace "Wally" Berman (February 18, 1926 – February 18, 1976) was an American experimental filmmaker, assemblage, and collage artist and a crucial figure in the history of post-war California art.

Wallace Berman was born in Staten Island, New York in 1926.

1930

In the 1930s his family moved to Boyle Heights, Los Angeles.

1940

Berman was discharged from high school for gambling in the early 1940s and became involved in the West Coast jazz scene.

Berman wrote a song with Jimmy Witherspoon.

He attended classes at Jepson Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute in the 1940s.

1949

For a few years from 1949 he worked in a factory finishing furniture.

It was at the factory where he began creating sculptures from wood scraps.

1950

This led to him becoming a full-time artist by the early 1950s, and to an involvement in the Beat Movement.

Berman had said to his mother as a child he would die on his 50th birthday, which is precisely what did occur.

"His art embodied the kind of interdisciplinary leanings and interests that, in time, would come to help characterize the Beat movement as a whole."

Berman created Verifax collages, which consist of photocopies of images from magazines and newspapers, mounted onto a flat surface in collage fashion, mixed with occasional solid areas of acrylic paint.

To make them, Berman used a Verifax copier (Kodak) machine to copy images which he often juxtaposed in a grid format, creating what the critic Will Fenstermaker called "psychedelic typologies."

Berman was influenced by jazz music, rock music, poetry of his Beat circle, Surrealism, Dada, as well as the Kabbalah.

Though he was not religious, the influence of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism is seen in his collages that included Hebrew letters.

These letters also appear in his only film, Aleph.

His involvement with the jazz scene allowed him opportunities to work with jazz musicians, creating bebop album covers for Charlie Parker.

1954

He married Shirley Morand (aka Shirley Berman) and together they had a son Tosh in 1954.

1955

Semina was published from 1955 to 1964.

The cover of the first issue of Semina featured a photograph of artist and occultist Marjorie Cameron.

1957

He moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco in late 1957 where he mostly focused on his magazine Semina, which consisted of poetry, photographs, texts, drawings and images assembled by Berman.

In 1957 Berman had his first exhibition of his artworks at the newly opened Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

His friends were the curators/owners of the gallery, Ed Kienholz, Robert Alexander and Walter Hopps.

After the opening, the L.A. vice squad got a telephone tip from an anonymous caller and during the raid they found what was deemed to be a pornographic image by Cameron Parsons titled Peyote Vision at the bottom of one of Berman's assemblage works called Temple.

He later was convicted of displaying lewd and obscene materials.

At the summation in the courtroom, Berman wrote on the blackboard "There is no justice, only revenge".

His actor-friend Dean Stockwell paid the $150 fine to release Berman.

Ferus was the last showing in a public gallery for Berman during his life.

His mail art publication Semina was a series of folio packages that were limited edition and sent or given to his friends.

Semina consisted of collages mixed with poetry by writers Michael McClure, Philip Lamantia, David Meltzer, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, John Kelly Reed and Berman, which he published under the pseudonym Pantale Xantos.

The volume also included Cameron's drawing, Peyote Vision. This artwork was featured in Berman's 1957 exhibition at Los Angeles' Ferus Gallery, which was raided and shut down by police.

Investigating officers claimed that Peyote Vision, which featured two copulating figures, was pornographic and indecent, thus legitimizing their actions.

1958

Berman created a 6 minute 8mm silent experimental film entitled Aleph that he worked on from 1958 to 1976.

Berman began work on Aleph soon after the release of the first issues of Semina, and the film incorporated techniques carried over from collage and painting.

The film includes hand coloring, Letraset symbols, and collage portraits of pop-culture icons, which Berman superimposed on images of a Sony transistor radio.

After Berman's death, filmmaker Stan Brakhage salvaged the film and enlarged it to 16mm for public screening.

1961

In 1961, he came back to L.A., then moved to Topanga Canyon in 1965.

1963

He started creating his series of Verifax Collages in 1963 or 1964.

1969

Director Dennis Hopper, a collector of Berman's work, gave Berman a small role in his 1969 film Easy Rider.

1976

He produced work until his death in 1976 in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.