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Hand-pulled monotype with variable colours from 10 plates on Somerset tub sized radiant White 410gsm - One from a series of 50 unique works - Hand signed, numbered and dated in pencil

Katherine Bernhardt's Scotch Magic Tape is a 2021 hand-pulled monotype from a series of 50 unique works. The vibrant composition, created using 10 plates on Somerset tub-sized radiant white paper, combines expressive brushstrokes and bold colors to depict an abstracted version of the iconic Scotch tape dispenser. The text Scotch 3M is prominently featured, blending with the dynamic patterns and forms that fill the composition. Bernhardt’s use of vivid hues—greens, reds, and blues—against a contrasting warm background gives the piece an energetic, almost playful quality. The monotype technique, with its varied textures and one-of-a-kind nature, adds depth and uniqueness to each print, showcasing Bernhardt's experimental and spontaneous approach.

Katherine Bernhardt (USA, 1975) is an American contemporary artist celebrated for her vibrant, large-scale paintings that blend elements of pop culture and everyday objects. Her expressive works feature motifs like tropical fruits, consumer goods, and cartoon characters, rendered in bold colors and dynamic compositions. Bernhardt's art has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.

Katherine Bernhardt

Scotch Magic Tape, 2021

Name: Scotch Magic Tape, 2021
SKU: 11207

Form

Limited Edition Print

Limited Edition PrintA limited edition print is one of a number of prints made at the same time from one printmaking plate. A fixed number are made and signed by the artist, indicating the printing order, using the format 1/10, meaning first of ten prints.

Medium

Monotype

MonotypeMonotype is a printmaking technique where an image is painted or drawn on a nonabsorbent, smooth surface, traditionally an etching plate of copper, but now also acrylic, zinc, or glass. The image is then transferred to paper using a printing press, creating a unique print. The first pressing removes most of the ink, making it difficult to produce additional prints with the same richness, resulting in a one-of-a-kind artwork.

Edition

Unique from an edition of 50

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Hand-pulled monotype with variable colours from 10 plates on Somerset tub sized radiant White 410gsm - One from a series of 50 unique works - Hand signed, numbered and dated in pencil

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Katherine Bernhardt

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Katherine Bernhardt’s work explores the nature and symbolism of contemporary culture. She characteristically decontextualizes and juxtaposes her otherwise mundane subjects—from processed and fast foods to comic strip and cartoon characters—often arranging multiple instances of them within a field of striking and garish neon color. Her painting, “Hamburgers and French Fries and Basket Balls,” exemplifies this approach.

Bernhardt’s works combine elements of street art and vivid color schemes, all executed with rapidity. This aspect of her process is evidenced in the quick, bold brush strokes of acrylic paint, the pooled fields of spray field, and the impressionistic simplicity of her depictions—a style that is reminiscent of Henri Matisse, albeit with a uniquely contemporary form of presentation.

In rendering objects which are otherwise unremarkable in this manner, Katherine Bernhardt manages to elevate her subjects to new heights, lifting them out of the field of the ordinary, thereby calling them into question and inviting an interrogation of their iconography and cultural salience.

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Katherine Bernhardt

Humid, 2024

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

GBP 4,950 - 6,400

Katherine Bernhardt

Panther Panther Rosa Rosa, 2020

Sculpture / Object

Wood

GBP 5,400

Katherine Bernhardt

Swimmers, 2022

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 3,490

Katherine Bernhardt

Nike Panther, 2019

Limited Edition Print

Lithograph

USD 4,800

Katherine Bernhardt

Sea Turtles, 2015

Limited Edition Print

Screen-print

USD 15,000

Artwork by Andy Warhol

What is pop-art?

Pop Art is an art movement that began in Britain in 1955 and in the late 1950s in the U.S. It challenged traditional fine arts by incorporating imagery from popular culture, such as news, advertising, and comic books. Pop Art often isolates and recontextualizes materials, combining them with unrelated elements. The movement is more about the attitudes and ideas that inspired it than the specific art itself. Pop Art is seen as a reaction against the dominant ideas of Abstract Expressionism, bringing everyday consumer culture into the realm of fine art.

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Katherine Bernhardt

Scotch Magic Tape, 2021

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