Hamburgers French Fries + Cigarettes
2014
Katherine Bernhardt's bold, frenetic composition features repeated motifs of hamburgers, french fries, and cigarettes rendered in vibrant acrylic and spraypaint on canvas. Her signature loose, gestural style animates the everyday consumer objects with a playful yet feverish energy, the imagery tumbling across the surface in rhythmic, pattern-like arrangements. The work channels pop sensibility and street art aesthetics to elevate mundane junk food culture into something simultaneously celebratory and absurd.
- Medium
- acrylic and spraypaint on canvas
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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September 20, 2016
Artists in conversation
Wayne Thiebaud
American · b. 1920
Thiebaud similarly elevated everyday American junk food and consumer goods like cakes, hot dogs, and pies into bold, celebratory painted compositions with a pop sensibility and rhythmic repetition of objects across the canvas surface.
Tom Wesselmann
American · b. 1931
Wesselmann shared Bernhardt's focus on mundane American consumer culture including food items rendered with flat, vibrant color and a playful pop art boldness that simultaneously celebrated and critiqued everyday material life.
Judith Bernstein
American · b. 1942
Bernstein employs a similarly gestural, frenetic and energetic mark making approach with spray paint and acrylic, filling canvas surfaces with repeated graphic motifs that carry raw, almost feverish visual intensity rooted in American street and counterculture aesthetics.
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