Katherine Bernhardt

Published by CANADA
Edited by Dan Nadel
11 x 8 in (27.94 × 55.88 cm)
176 pages

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of Katherine Bernhardt’s wildly popular pattern paintings. Spanning 2013 through 2016, it collects over 100 of her brightly colored canvases. In 2013 Bernhardt dropped all direct quotation and began working straight from her imagination, mining a fertile reservoir of experience, imagery and sensation. These paintings are comprised of oversized objects reflecting her daily experience; from life in New York to her love of Puerto Rico, her Saint Louis roots and family life. The objects are painted with verve and tenacity, and include a jumble of the following items on colorfully grounds: watermelon slices, boom boxes, computers, pizza slices, cassette tapes, hamburgers, basketballs, old cell phones, airplanes, fruit, sharks, water, sea turtles, cigarettes, sharpies and keyboards. Bernhardt presents a slightly delirious slice of life, the out-of-date and the up-to-the-minute all at once.