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Katherine Bernhardt

Pinkness

Estimate
$10,000 - 15,000
$30,240
Lot Details
acrylic, spray paint and printed paper collage on canvas
signed, titled and dated "2000 Katherine Bernhardt "PINKNESS"" on the overlap
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
Executed in 2000.

Katherine Bernhardt

American | 1975
Katherine Bernhardt, whether in her paintings or make-shift Moroccan rugs, is rapt by neons and geometries. The artist, who works in New York, takes an almost hasty-flick of a brushstroke that lands as a jagged architectural form — figures cut in space and in buzzing colors that leave a mental trace.Seemingly each month, multiple galleries, museums or art fairs across the world exhibit Bernhardt's large-scale fantasies and rug-centric installations, as seen in 2017 at Art Basel and with a solo retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth. "I think the best painters don't intellectualize their own art—they just make stuff," she says; but with sharks circling trash in the water in today's climate, as is depicted in Sharks, Toilet Paper and Plantains, it's not hard to see Bernhardt's deeper meanings. 
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