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New High Line Billboard: Katherine Bernhardt’s Spring Cleaning

katherine bernhardt spring cleaning billboard photo by gail worley
Photos By Gail

Katherine Bernhardt is known for paintings that merge commercial motifs and imagery from everyday life with loose, expressive mark-making. Her canvases stage dense scenes of pop culture, featuring cartoon characters, brand logos, and household objects — Garfield, the Pink Panther, E.T., Crocs, the Nike swoosh, and cigarettes. Rather than treating these images as symbols to decode, Bernhardt approaches iconography as material to play with, reframe, and exhaust.
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Katherine Bernhardt’s Concrete Jungle Jungle Love at The Lever House

Installation View
All Photos By Gail

The Lever House Art Collection recently hosted Concrete Jungle Jungle Love, a site-specific installation by New York based artist Katherine Bernhardt. I happened to pop in to the exhibit which filled the Lever House Park Avenue lobby, while passing time before dining a nearby restaurant, as the installation’s vibrantly-colored elements drew me in from the street like steel to a magnet.
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