Black
2018
Katherine Bernhardt's 'Black' (2018) employs acrylic and spray paint on canvas to create a bold abstract composition. The work demonstrates the artist's gestural and expressive approach to color and mark-making. Bernhardt's practice bridges abstraction and figuration through dynamic surface treatment.
- Medium
- acrylic and spray paint on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
March 31, 2023
Artists in conversation
Jean-Michel Basquiat
American · b. 1960
Basquiat similarly combined spray paint and acrylic on canvas with bold gestural mark-making, bridging abstraction and figuration through raw expressive energy and urban visual language that closely mirrors Bernhardt's approach in this work.
Cecily Brown
British · b. 1969
Brown's large scale canvases share a similar tension between abstraction and figuration through dynamic gestural brushwork and expressive surface treatment, echoing the bold contemporary painterly qualities visible in this piece.
Eddie Martinez
American · b. 1977
Martinez employs acrylic and spray paint in bold abstract compositions that fuse gestural spontaneity with urban energy, making his practice one of the closest contemporary parallels to the technique and expressive quality demonstrated in this Bernhardt work.
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