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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.
Edition of 125
The Evolution Tote is now sold out. Click Add to Waitlist to be notified of additional releases of this and other items by the artist, and of future artist collaborations.
This reversible oversized tote bag is screen printed inside and out with four images — all inspired by Pokémon trading cards — from the artist's most recent solo show at David Zwirner in Hong Kong.
Only 125 of these totes were produced. Each is hand-numbered on the tag, which features the artist's signature.
5 presale customers chosen at random will receive an exclusive set of printed Pokémon-inspired cards, designed and signed by Bernhardt.
TheRealReal is Platform's reselling partner for keeping these collectible items in circulation.
Due to the extremely limited number produced, all orders of this tote are final sale. Limit two (2) totes per order, one order per household. All pre-sale orders will ship the week of June 26, 2023.

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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24 inches
16 inches

Dry clean only.

③ Artist:

Katherine Bernhardt

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.

Katherine Bernhardt:
Evolution Tote, 2023
Screenprint on heavy weight canvas
16.0 × 24.0 inches /
Katherine Bernhardt:
Evolution Tote, 2023
Screenprint on heavy weight canvas
16.0 × 24.0 inches /
kb bag

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.More

  • Edition of 125
  • The Evolution Tote is now sold out. Click Add to Waitlist to be notified of additional releases of this and other items by the artist, and of future artist collaborations.
  • This reversible oversized tote bag is screen printed inside and out with four images — all inspired by Pokémon trading cards — from the artist's most recent solo show at David Zwirner in Hong Kong.
  • Only 125 of these totes were produced. Each is hand-numbered on the tag, which features the artist's signature.
  • 5 presale customers chosen at random will receive an exclusive set of printed Pokémon-inspired cards, designed and signed by Bernhardt.
  • TheRealReal is Platform's reselling partner for keeping these collectible items in circulation.
  • Due to the extremely limited number produced, all orders of this tote are final sale. Limit two (2) totes per order, one order per household. All pre-sale orders will ship the week of June 26, 2023.
Offered in June 2023
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