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Username: BERNAYS
Member Since: March 2011
Member Since: March 2011
LOS ANGELES, CA United States
My landscapes are an idealization, "Sometimes I want to crawl into the landscapes that I create, build a house there or make a sand castle. I see a perfect future, an ideal man, a woman I would like to be, the land I want to return home to." Like the... more
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| Gender: | Female |
| Artist Statement: | My landscapes are an idealization, "Sometimes I want to crawl into the landscapes that I create, build a house there or make a sand castle. I see a perfect future, an ideal man, a woman I would like to be, the land I want to return home to." Like the dreams of cows or a crystal lake on a how dusty day. I want pant to be paint. I want to see the blobs and swirls of how the image is manufactured. I love it when that daub magically becomes two things, a piece of paint on a canvas and the calming gesture of an animal trainer moving a camel to the left, or the nervous glint on the girls face as she both leans in to her lover and pulls away. |
| Education: | Foundation, Chelsea School of Fine Art 1997-98 BA Honors, Central St Martins 1998 -2001 |
| Awards & Distinctions: | shortlisted Mercury Art Award 2006 |
| Exhibitions: | Art for Youth, The Royal College of Art, London, 2010 Project Ethos, Hollywood, 2010 Cannibal Flower, Los Angeles, 2010 Art for Youth, The Mall Gallery, London, October 2009, 2008 Create fixate, Broken, Downtown Los Angeles, July 2009 Centered on the Center, Huntingdon Beach Art Center, Orange County, California 2008 Affordable Art Fair, London 2007 - 2009 Ideal Home Show, London 2006 - 2009 Short listed: Mercury Art Prize, London 2006 BA (Honors) Degree Show, Central St Martins College, 2001 Exhibit 99, Annual showcase of fine art from all London Institute colleges, 1999 |
| Artist Tags: | bernays, fine art, painting, figurtive, acrylic |
