Berger & Föhr

Berger & Föhr is the collaborative practice of Todd Berger (b. 1975, Chicago, IL) and Lucian Föhr (b. 1988, Boulder, CO). Working in shared authorship since 2002, they treat partnership as both method and subject: a long-duration collaboration shaped by systems thinking, reduction, and iterative, process -driven making. Their work spans contemporary art and design, focusing on geometric abstraction across machine-assisted drawing,printmaking, painting, and occasional sculpture, alongside identity systems and visual programs for institutions and brands.

Berger & Föhr work with formal restraint and compositional rigor, using process as a way to think—method and mindset . Their art practice is anchored in material testing and system-building. They set conditions, define variables, and refine procedures through iteration. Across mediums, the work is produced through calibrated relationships bet ween hand, tool, and system.

In the recent series Graphite Gradients and Color Gradients, machine-assisted drawing builds tonal and chromatic fields through repeated pass es and controlled shifts in pressure, density, timing, and overlap. Composition is grounded in geometric abstraction—precision layout , proportion, and optic al structure. Color is treated as an active compositional variable, selected and deployed for intensity, contrast , and interaction within the system. In design, they minimize chance; in art , they create space for constrained variability within a predetermined framework . Small deviations register the conditions of the studio, the instrument, and the process at a given time.