Katherine Bernhardt - Modern & Contemporary Art New York Wednesday, July 17, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Canada, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Lee Escobedo, “Green House Grows,” PATRON, June/July 2017, pp. 46-47 (Green House Market, Rosewood Court, Dallas, installation view 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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Sharpies, bananas, new balance and G4 cell phones

signed and dated "2015 Katherine Bernhardt" on the reverse
acrylic and spray paint on canvas
96 x 120 1/4 in. (243.8 x 305.4 cm)
Executed in 2015.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $48,260

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Modern & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 17 July 2024