Katherine Bernhardt: Swatches
Publisher: Karma
Publish Date: 2018
Text by Alison Hearst
Vivid paintings of Swatch watches from the collection of Katherine Bernhardt
New York painter Katherine Bernhardt (born 1975) began collecting Swatch watches as a teenager in suburban Saint Louis. Obsessed by their shapes, variety of graphics and their air of pop sophistication, they became a constant in Bernhardt's visual life. She has completed numerous paintings of Swatches over the last decade, and this volume, published on the occasion of her Swatch-focused exhibition in August 2017 at Karma, pictures her original Swatch collection, kept for all these years, as well as a generous selection of her Swatch-themed paintings.
Details
Publisher: Karma
Artist: Katherine Bernhardt
Publication Date: 2018
ISBN: 9781942607861
Retail: $45
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 10.25 × 12.25 in
Pages: 156
Artist and Contributors
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.
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