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Why is a Mushroom Growing in My Shower (Signed)
Expanding on her exhibition at David Zwirner London from 2022, this Katherine Bernhardt catalog includes additional paintings and works on paper, further developing an ongoing body of work. With many details of paintings inside, this significant publication gives the artist’s work ample space for investigation. Suzanne Hudson’s essay considers Bernhardt’s work from an art-historical perspective while exploring the artist’s work and life. This special edition, which features a slipcase and a signed and numbered bookplate designed by the artist, is available in a limited run of 250 copies.
Katherine Bernhardt’s 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 her democratizing surfaces 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.
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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.
