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① Artwork:
Evolution Tote
Made from premium heavyweight canvas, this exclusive and limited-edition reversible tote is screen printed with images of Pokémon card-inspired paintings by Katherine Bernhardt. The compositions reflect the artist's continued exploration of imagery inspired by her own life and the broader culture, rendered using the signature elements of her exuberant style.
Printed both inside and out, the bag features four images from the artist's most recent solo show at David Zwirner in Hong Kong. Each tote is sewn with a hand-numbered tag that is also embroidered with the artist's signature.
Katherine Bernhardt’s boundless visual appetite has established her as one of the most energetic painters working today. Based in St. Louis, MO, with a BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the School of Visual Arts, respectively, Bernhardt arranges unlikely visual combinations within expansive fields of vibrant color. Bernhardt’s trust in the fundamental underpinnings of painting gives her the freedom to depict anything she wants democratically, with an ever-expanding list of quotidian motifs such as tacos, coffee makers, toilet paper, cigarettes, mushrooms, E.T., Garfield, Darth Vader, and the Pink Panther. With liberal use of spray paint, puddles of thinned-out acrylic, and utilitarian brushwork, Bernhardt’s process is improvisational and loose, inviting chance into the works, as well as asserting an equal relationship between artist and material.
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Dry clean only.
③ Artist:
Katherine Bernhardt’s (b. 1975) boundless visual appetite has established her as one of the most energetic painters working today. Her trust in the fundamental underpinnings of painting gives her the freedom to depict anything she wants, and the democratizing surfaces of her canvases work without illusion, perspective, logical scale shifts, or atmosphere. With Bernhardt’s blunt yet lyrical approach, each painting has the feel of a complete thought that engages rich and raucous free association.
In 2023, David Zwirner’s Hong Kong location presented a solo exhibition of new works by Bernhardt. In 2022, the artist’s work was on view in Katherine Bernhardt: Why is a mushroom growing in my shower? at the gallery’s London location.
Work by the artist is found in prominent public and museum collections worldwide, including The Brant Foundation, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Portland Museum of Art, Maine; Rubell Museum, Miami; and the San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas. Bernhardt lives and works in St. Louis.