David Zwirner is pleased to participate in ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair 2021. The gallery will present a selection of new works by Katherine Bernhardt. Created in her vast St. Louis, Missouri, studio, these monumental canvases continue to expand Bernhardt's repertoire of images culled from an irreverent American pop vernacular. Working on multiple paintings at once, she first renders in spray paint such lively characters as E.T. and the Pink Panther—in addition to recurring pencils, pizza slices, toilet paper rolls, and cigarettes—before laying the canvases on the floor and further applying colourful drips and strokes of watered-down acrylic pigments that run together.
Also on view will be works by Josef Albers, Mamma Andersson, Raoul De Keyser, Marcel Dzama, Yayoi Kusama, Nate Lowman, Oscar Murillo, Raymond Pettibon, Josh Smith, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rose Wylie.
To coincide with the fair, David Zwirner will present Studio: Katherine Bernhardt on davidzwirner.com. This body of work introduces the likeness of Dr. Teeth, a character that fronts the Electric Mayhem, The Muppet Show's house band that debuted in 1975—the same year the artist was born. Pairing Dr. Teeth with cigarettes, Dorito chips, or puffy cheese ball snacks in a vibrant palette, Bernhardt integrates the raucous puppet into her unique visual lexicon.