I love these delightful inventions by Monica Bernier that explore new possibilities for shape and sensuous color. I particularly enjoyed the whimsical forms of her Desert series as well as the formal compositional investigations of her collages and her cutouts shown in this slideshow.
From Monica Bernier’s Website Bio:
Monica Bernier was born and raised in New York City and studied painting at Boston University College of Fine Arts with, amongst others, James Weeks, John Wilson, Philip Guston, and Robert D’Arista. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from The American University, winning the David Lloyd Kreeger Award for excellence in Painting. She received the Julius Hallgarten Award for painting from the National Academy of Design. She is currently represented by Bowery Gallery in New York City. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States. Her work is in private collections both in the United States and Europe. She lives and works in New York City.”
Painting Perceptions was started in 2009 by Larry Groff to promote the ideas, practice and experience of painters working from observation in a modernist vein from around the world through interviews, essays, videos and community. It later evolved to include imagination-based and abstract painting as well.
Thank you for sharing these images. I love these works!
Curious how the artist arrives at these compositions and what kinds of sources she uses for materials in her collage. I would love to hear her talk about how her collage practice informs her painting and vice versa. How does she think about color and space in her collage, and how does that relate to her observation and representation of color and perspective in her painting?