Katherine Bernhardt - New Now New York Wednesday, September 27, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Kate MacGarry, London
    Private Collection (acquired from the above)
    Phillips, London, December 9, 2015, lot 1
    Private Collection, Los Angeles
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    London, Kate MacGarry, Painting 1, 2, 3, June 12–July 18, 2015

  • Literature

    Martin Herbert, “Four Painting Shows,” Frieze, online (illustrated)

  • Artist Biography

    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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Hawaiian Punch

signed, titled and dated "Katherine Bernhardt 2014 Hawaiian PUNCH" on the reverse
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
95 7/8 x 120 in. (243.5 x 304.8 cm)
Executed in 2014.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

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New Now

New York Auction 27 September 2023