With this artwork, Katherine Bernhardt continues her exploration of contemporary pop phenomena by turning her focus to characters influenced by the expansive Pokémon universe. Known to cull from an irreverent pop vernacular, her own life, and the broader culture, Bernhardt continues to broaden her unique visual lexicon with these one-of-a-kind paintings, made with ink on Arches natural white watercolor paper. Each artwork features a different Pokémon-inspired figure, centrally placed within motifs chockfull of the artist's signature bold colors and energetic brushstrokes.

Katherine Bernhardt’s boundless visual appetite has established her as one of today's most exciting painters. She first attracted notice in the early 2000s for her paintings of supermodels taken straight from Elle and Vogue fashion spreads. In the decade following, she made pattern paintings from numerous disparate images, including toilet paper, cigarettes, E.T., Garfield, Darth Vader, and the Pink Panther, to name a few. With a strong belief in the fundamental underpinnings of painting, Bernhardt courageously depicts all her inspirations democratically, with an improvisational and loose process that invites accident and chance into her artworks.