Katherine Bernhardt

Merengue (2017)

Edition of 100
Five colour lithographic print on Somerset Velvet 300 gsm. Produced by Paupers Press, London.
70.5 x 97 cm (27.7 x 38.1 in)
Signed, numbered and dated by the artist.
$8,200
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The objects featured in Katherine Bernhardt’s paintings are as quotidian as it gets: batteries, Doritos, cigarettes, blenders, laptops, coffee makers, burgers, Nikes. The stuff that gets you going and keeps you going. Gregarious and brash, they are at once effortless and carefully balanced, predicated on the classic composition of the grid while working Warhol’s maxim of ‘liking things’ then painting them. An array of objects are first traced out with fast lines of bright spray paints. The shapes created are then loosely filled with various densities of acrylic paint, varying from straight out of the tube to watery washes. Full-bodied and electric, her palette is a harmony of opposites, such as day-glo pink butting up happily against shadowy brown and ochre-orange. None of her shapes – which follow a basic circle, square, triangle or rectangle form – overlap or dominate the other. It’s a non-hierarchical schematic, representative of day-to-day life as found, sold and bought in any typical big town or small town convenience store.

Katherine's show at Modern Art Museum Fort Worth will open April 7th, her large scale mural will also be on display at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis until April 17th.

Represented by the influential CANADA Gallery, Katherine Bernhardt is a key player in New York’s contemporary painting scene. She’s collaborated with hip-hop superstar Drake, painted a swimming pool in Miami, created a public mural in LA, and runs her own Moroccan carpet import business. Bernhardt is currently exhibiting at ‘No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection’ and will be showing new work at MANIFESTA 2016 in Zürich. Bernhardt was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1975. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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