Modern Culture at Gershwin Hotel
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3 East 27th Street NY 10016
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Katherine Bernhardt
dal 28/11/2001 al 22/12/2001
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28/11/2001

Katherine Bernhardt

Modern Culture at Gershwin Hotel, New York

Ms. Bernhardt's exhibition is being divided between two venues. The show at Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel will consist of a wide variety of works that represent a variegation of scale, image, and material. The show at Team Gallery will primarily consist of six-by-eight-foot paintings in a number of vernacular styles, both figurative and abstract. Bernhardt's paintings are much more than kitsch, than arrogance, than disruption.


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Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel will present a solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by "Katherine Bernhardt".

A concurrent solo exhibition of new paintings by Ms. Bernhardt will take place at Team Gallery.

Katherine Bernhardt's paintings are much more than kitsch, than arrogance, than disruption.
Although her practice is stridently irreverent, her investment in the material hybridity of contemporary painting marks her's as an earnest voice.
Ms. Bernhardt puts it on, laying down paint accurately with both economy and aggression, fully exhausting the possibilities of artmaking over the rainbow and beyond the Golden Arches.
We are clearly in a place of pleasure.

Ms. Bernhardt's exhibition is being divided between two venues.
The show at Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel will consist of a wide variety of works that represent a variegation of scale, image, and material.
The show at Team Gallery will primarily consist of six-by-eight-foot paintings in a number of vernacular styles, both figurative and abstract.

Ms. Bernhardt's work is clumsy, but its exuberance is catchy.
She attacks the canvas with expressive gestures in the service cataloguing a world of interest.
Her personal iconography includes--but is not limited to--such disparate images as corporate logos; Versace and Gucci fashion models; the pop singer, Bjork; Nike ad campaign materials; E.T.; travel posters; and materials at hand.
Ms. Bernhardt turns McDonald's Golden Arches into heaving breasts; inverting the image yields up juicy buttocks. Ms. Bernhardt transforms Saul Bass' AT&T logo into an abstract signature of modernity and, in so doing, renders a painting that looks like it was made last week by a boy in Dresden.
Much like a disc jockey, "DJ KB," samples culture, mixing a keen contemporary eye with an antiquated handling of paint.
Her manipulation of materials--the thick, pictorial quality of her brushstrokes and the transparency of spray paint--all form a repertoire that endears as much as it repels.
Ms. Bernhardt's paintings suggest something new while allowing us to take pleasure in old-fashioned painterly excess.
Long live the new Expressionism!

29 November 2001, 6:00 to 8:00 pm, Opening Reception (Team Gallery)

29 November 2001, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, Opening Reception (Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel)

Modern Culture At the Gershwin Hotel is located at 3 East 27th Street (between Fifth and Madison Avenues) in the Madison Square District, on the ground floor.

Team Gallery is located at 527 West 26th Street (between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues) in the West Chelsea District, on the ground floor.

Gallery hours for this exhibition will be Tuesday to Saturday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.

For further information, please call Barry Neuman at 212.213.8289.

Modern Culture At The Gershwin Hotel
3 East 27th Street
New York NY 10016
212.213.8289 tel 212.213.8743 fax

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