General Bio on JB Berkow

JB Berkow who is a world-renown artist has also owned and run many businesses. In 1976, at age twenty-six she founded the most successful cooperative gallery in the country, Touchstone Gallery in Washington, D.C., which is still going strong today. She began Frenchman’s Art Gallery and Studios in Juno Beach, Florida in 1994, and in 2004 she opened a retail store, RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery located in a 3,200 square foot warehouse, which she ran until she founded a 14,000 square foot nonprofit dedicated to the fabrication of fine three-dimensional art called the Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts.

Besides repping other artists, her own artwork has been shown in museums and universities all over this country and is in the permanent collection of the Contemporary Art Collection at the Vatican in Italy. She is an unusual artist in that she has spent most of her professional life, not only promoting her own work, but also promoting the work of other talented emerging and mid-career artists.

Coming at art from both sides:  showing it and being repped herself has given JB a unique perspective to know the business of art upside down and sideways.  On top of that, the many years she ran cooperative and membership galleries has given her an in depth view into the artist’s psyche and some of the pit falls that impede them from getting ahead.  Thus, she decided to write a book to help emerging artists take their career to the next level titled, “What They Didn’t Teach You In Art School.”  Ms. Berkow is also an author of two other books, “Shades of Love,” a collection of her own poetry and “Painted Poetry,” which is a monograph of her work spanning a period of fifteen years with a poem to go with each image.