AO ON SITE: KATHERINE BERNHARDT AT CANADA, NEW YORK, APRIL 24-JUNE 1 2008

April 25th, 2008


Katherine Bernhardt via ArtObserved

Katherine Bernhardt’s bold collection of work, which opened last night at CANADA Gallery in New York, celebrates her canvas-chronicled love affairs with fashion and music celebrities known to the masses by their now infamous monikers. Bernhardt captures her favorite bold-faced names in vibrant colors and fresh, graphic strokes that allow her audience to see the stars that are “Kate, Giselle, Natalia, Kanye, George & Simon” in striking and fanciful new light.

Katherine Bernhardt at CANADA [CANADA Gallery]
Bernhardt in Studio [V Magazine]
Katherine Bernhardt at Saatchi Gallery UK [Saatchi Gallery]
Critics Picks of The Armory Show [NYMag]
Bernhardt’s Artist Rank [ArtFacts.Net]
Nearby Restaurants & Bars [Time Out New York]
Benhardt at Patricia Low Contemporary [GSTAAD Life]
Bernhardt’s Artist Playlist [WPS1 MoMA]

CANADA Gallery via ArtObserved


John Izzi, Ghurron Briscoe and Diarmuid McDermott via ArtObserved

Showing marked growth and stylistic refinement since past collections of work, exhibited in cities including Frankfurt, Vienna, Toronto, Paris, Houston, Toronto, Puerto Rico, Gstaad, Cannes, Antwerp and New York, Bernhardt’s paintings, previously on display at The Saatchi Gallery in London, have gone from glamorous chaos, to lush, cosmopolitan decadence, defined, with the international clientele to prove her success.

CANADA Gallery via ArtObserved

Bernhardt’s fodder drip luxury and style from their larger-than-life on-canvas homes; and the seasonally hip, fluorescent color palate she uses was well matched by the downtown onlookers in attendance at the April 24th opening. A graduate of New York’s renowned School of Visual Arts, Bernhardt’s glittering expressionist style clearly has no trouble drawing an international crowd.


Carmelo Larose and Jeffrey Miles via ArtObserved


Work Out 2007 via CANADA


Jorge and Marco De La Cruz via ArtObserved


Henry Lihn via ArtObserved

KBII via ArtObserved