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Lithograph on Somerset Velvet White 300gsm - Numbered, titled and dated in pencil

Katherine Bernhardt's 'Swimmers' (2022) is a lively and bold lithograph that showcases her signature playful, pop-culture-inspired style. The artwork features two large sharks swimming across a vibrant blue background, with pink toilet paper rolls floating around them. The use of bright, contrasting colors like pink, blue, and black, as well as the thick, expressive lines, adds a cartoonish and energetic feel to the composition. The sharks, with their exaggerated sharp teeth and simplistic forms, evoke a sense of humor and spontaneity, characteristic of Bernhardt's work. The juxtaposition of the menacing sharks with the mundane, almost absurd, image of toilet paper rolls creates an unexpected and humorous contrast. This blend of everyday objects with wild, imaginative imagery is typical of Bernhardt's art, where elements of popular culture, consumer goods, and personal iconography collide. The artwork is hand-signed, numbered, titled, and dated in pencil, printed on high-quality Somerset Velvet White paper, adding to its value as a collectible print.

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

Swimmers, 2022

Name: Swimmers, 2022
SKU: 15045
Price: 3490.00 USD
Availability: InStock

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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.

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Lithograph

Lithograph Lithography is a printing method based on the principle that water and oil do not mix. It can be used to print artwork or text onto paper or other suitable materials. Traditionally, an image was drawn with wax, fat, or oil onto a lithographic limestone surface or plate. Today, metal plates and other surfaces are also used in lithographic printing.

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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

Swimmers, 2022

59.9 x 75.9 cm

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