Lisa Simpson, watermelon, cantelope, cigarettes, and chapstick
2016
Katherine Bernhardt's painting combines pop culture imagery with everyday consumer objects, merging the animated figure of Lisa Simpson with mundane items like watermelon, cantaloupe, cigarettes, and chapstick in a vibrant composition. Working in acrylic and spray paint on canvas, Bernhardt employs bold colors and gestural mark making that reflect her engagement with contemporary consumer culture and cartoon aesthetics. The work exemplifies her practice of collaging recognizable cultural references and commercial products into energetic, large scale paintings that blur the boundaries between high art and popular imagery.
- Medium
- acrylic and spray paint on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale
November 26, 2024
Lot 68
Artists in conversation
Wayne Thiebaud
American · b. 1920
Thiebaud similarly elevated mundane consumer goods and everyday objects into vibrant, large scale paintings with bold colors and playful compositions that celebrate American consumer culture through a pop inflected lens.
Tom Wesselmann
American · b. 1931
Wesselmann combined recognizable pop culture imagery with still life consumer objects using bold flat colors and gestural acrylic application, directly paralleling Bernhardt's collaging of cartoon iconography with everyday domestic items.
Dana Schutz
American · b. 1976
Schutz employs similarly vibrant colors and energetic gestural mark making on large scale canvases to depict figurative and cultural subjects with a playful yet contemporary urgency that closely matches Bernhardt's expressive painterly approach.
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