Artist Wess Dahl-Berg has lived and worked in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Five years ago, he moved to Las Vegas to get close to the source material for
THE NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPES.

Dahl-Berg has also innovated other paintings styles. Click on images to see more.

Dahl-Berg's DECLARATION OF INTENT:

Is all painting DADA?    When we consider that there is a war to fight, a science to discover, a dollar to make . . . anyone who finds value in the smearing of paint on a canvas must be absurd!  But why is it, then, that throughout the ages, civilizations preserve painting and sculpture, while they let the more “useful” items fall, unceremoniously, to the wayside?  Art is indispensable in our quest to understand and embrace the non-rational inner-self, the one that is sometimes at odds with the logical regiments of society.
  All of this may sound like vague romanticism, so I will offer up a specific.  One dynamic that art explores is rarely discussed in consumer culture:  Our individual human experience of our physical environment is of greater importance to us than our actual physical environment.  Or, as The Bard had expressed in Hamlet, “For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”  Fortunately for us, we command much greater control of our experience, mentally, than we do over our environment, physically.  Of course, we can spend lifetimes discussing our personal preferences of good and bad.  But my query is more direct: If vision is our visual experience of the world, then how do our notions of good and bad affect the way we visualize, the way we shape and color, the world in our mind’s eye?