Katherine Bernhardt - New Now New York Tuesday, September 20, 2016 | Phillips

New Now

New York Auction 20 September 2016

  • Provenance

    China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
    Private Collection

  • 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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Katherine Bernhardt

Hamburgers French Fries + Cigarettes

signed, titled and dated "Katherine Bernhardt 2014 Hamburgers French Fries + Cigarettes" on the reverse
acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
72 x 60 in. (182.9 x 152.4 cm.)
Executed in 2014, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estimate
$20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for $35,000

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New Now

New York Auction 20 September 2016