Amy Bernays

Cereal Bowl Killer, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2021

The kids snuck into my studio, this started as a painting they did of me. After homeschooling all spring, it is like I am their whole world. My unintentional features where the borde...

both a noun for power, force, strength. And the past of May. This is a pair with a similar painting of his sister. This painting comes hot on the heals of a painting I did and quick...

Mixed media acrylic painting on stretched canvas. :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: ...

This is part of a series of work I do in duet with my children’s paintings. My process with painting is to ruminate on life. Childhood is both the present, and the ghosts; I see memories of my own childhood. I want to inhabit their strong imaginations, bursting into our experience. Blurring the line between real and imaginary. This is my little girl and her dragon. Her work is more about texture and form than his. Even though it is his subject, the feminine is throughout. I love being her mum...

Bowl 2010, alkyd, acrylic on canvas, 99x110 cm

Where in the Bowl Are You?

In my work I explore family objects as “families” of objects—individual silver heirlooms that are related to one another in a single collection and, collectively, to the individual f...