acrylic and spraypaint on canvas 51 x 41 cm (20 x 16 in)
About Katherine Bernhardt
Through her index of images, from childhood sticker books to a ketchup bottle seen during travel, Katherine Bernhardt chronicles her life and the broader culture, synthesizing her visual material with hard-won ease.
Her influences span from Henri Matisse and the Pattern and Decoration movement to Peter Doig and Chris Ofili. In a palette that ranges from restrained to vivid Day-Glo, Bernhardt paints the canvases face up on her studio floor, employing spray paint, puddles of thinned-out acrylic, and utilitarian brushwork to emphasize aspects of her motifs. Bernhardt’s process is improvisational and loose, at times inviting accident and chance into the works, as well as asserting an equal relationship between artist and material.
Bernhardt was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2000.
About EFA Morocco
EFA Morocco provides marginalized girls in rural Morocco with access to education. By eradicating the logistical, economic and social obstacles to high quality education, EFA enables these young women to fulfill their true potential.
EFA does this by building and running boarding houses for teenage girls close to schools, ensuring the girls can easily attend class every day and obtain a Baccalaureate degree.
