Katherine Bernhardt - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | Phillips
  • 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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Shower Power

2023
Unique lithograph in colors, on Somerset paper, the full sheet.
S. 50 1/2 x 32 5/8 in. (128.3 x 82.9 cm)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered 43/75 in pencil, from a series of unique color variants, published by Counter Editions, Margate, unframed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,985

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 22 - 24 October 2024