Metal Art Show in Bucerias
 Harold Sokolove - PVNN
| | 
| | 
| | 
| | Ron's Gallery is located at Km 10, on the Las Palmas Hwy, between Ixtapa and Las Palmas. For more information or to view the artist's works, visit www.metalartpv.com. |
Bucerias, Nayarit - Ron Berg is showing, and he hopes selling, some of his artwork-in-metal this week in Bucerias. His Arte Metalico Exposition runs through Sunday at Gringo's Books & Coffee on Av. Morelos, south of the footbridge, where you can meet the artist from noon to 6 pm each day.
Berg, 61, is a pipe-fitter by trade, but for the last 14 years or so, has dabbled in several different forms of media for his creations since arriving on the Puerto Vallarta scene. "All this," he says, "with a seventh grade education. I went to work at my father's plumbing shop at an early age."
Berg, originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, first came to Puerto Vallarta on vacation 15 years ago. Each vacation after that became longer and longer, until he finally moved into a house in the Olas Altas area of the city. It was there that his creative juices started to really flow, creating carvings from moose and deer antlers.
He later took a ceramics class in Edmonton, Canada and began creating pottery items. In the class, Berg and the rest of the students were given basic pottery items as teaching tools to learn technique. Berg would have none of that, however. He started adding his own touches to the items, asking "Why would I want to do the same thing as everyone else?"
That was certainly a sign of things to come for Berg. Several years later he moved to the Versailles area. He continued his work with antlers and ceramics, but added abstract painting to his list of talents. "I was just playing... I never knew what I was going to do when I got up in the morning," says Berg.
Six years ago, Berg moved to a more peaceful environment in the small village of La Desembocada, east of Puerto Vallarta, to get away from the beach, the noise and the tourists. And he began creating artwork and furniture in metal. "I bought a piece of land and then I designed my house and had it built," he says.
"My best friend, as a matter of fact, all my friends, thought it was a terrible idea to move out there. The interesting thing is that now my best friend, who owns a condo on the beach in Nuevo Vallarta, leaves his place to come stay at mine. He wants to move out here too... to build on top of my place. He already has a lot of the construction materials purchased."
Berg's home is also his gallery, Arte Metalico Escondida, with about 800 art and furniture creations, and his gallery keeps outgrowing its allotted space. "Right now, as we speak, the furniture in the living room is being moved someplace else so the room can become more gallery," he laughed on a recent Tuesday afternoon.
Ron's Gallery is located at Km 10, on the Las Palmas Hwy, between Ixtapa and Las Palmas. For more information or to view the artist's works, visit www.metalartpv.com. |
Vallarta Weddings
Vallarta Living | Art Talk | February 2006 
Tell a Friend
Site Map
Print this Page
Email Us