CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/9/2017

Katherine Bernhardt Signing & Launch at Spoonbill & Sugartown

Saturday, May 13, from 7-9PM, Spoonbill & Sugartown, CANADA and ARTBOOK | D.A.P. invite you to join Katherine Bernhardt for a book signing, installation and drinks to celebrate the release of Katherine Bernhardt. Join us at Spoonbill's new Montrose Avenue location!

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of Katherine Bernhardt’s wildly popular pattern paintings. Spanning 2013 through 2016, it collects over 100 of her brightly colored canvases. Well known for paintings of super models ripped from glossy fashion magazines and, more recently, Morrocan rug motifs, in 2013 Bernhardt dropped all direct quotation and now paints straight from her imagination, mining her own fertile reservoir of experience, imagery and sensation. Since then, Bernhardt has produced paintings that mix an assortment of objects reflecting her daily experiences, from life in New York to her love of Puerto Rico, her Saint Louis roots and family life. The objects are painted with incredible verve and tenacity, and include a jumble of the following items on colorfully activated grounds: watermelon slices, boom boxes, computers, pizza slices, cassette tapes, hamburgers, basketballs, old cell phones, airplanes, fruit, sharks, water, sea turtles, cigarettes, sharpies and keyboards. Bernhardt presents a slightly delirious feeling of New York City, the out-of-date and the up-to-the-minute all in one.

KATHERINE BERNHARDT was born in Saint Louis in 1975 and currently lives in New York. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Recent solo museum exhibition include Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis and The Modern, Fort Worth.

KATHERINE BERNHARDT Book Launch
Saturday, May 13: 7-9PM
Spoonbill & Sugartown Books
99 Montrose Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11206
718.387.7322