Amy Bernays

Lesson Learned, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

2022

Somehow it is easier to overpopulate a little painting and get away with it that in a big canvas. This little painting is crowded with life. The menagerie is my daughter’s depiction of her world, the animals within it. It is blued together with the depiction of a small crowd of children looking at the precious thing. We can half make out their forms. Still a little undefined, as things are when you are only half grown up. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

From the series in collaboration with my children. She gets to make choices. She made a rainbow out of purples. Later wept when her Knight was taken, she hurt for the death of her ...

(on hold for exhibition, The Next Big Thing at Studio Channel Islands 8/6/22) I love this collaboration. They are so lucky to have each other. I love to hear them talk when they d...

Like little girls are a herd of wild horses, their energy needs to be corralled, she needs to learn the rules. The grid of bars, the compositions divided by the imposing father figur...

Series: Untitled 1 Encaustic and Oil On Wood Panel Size: 30" x 40" Using unconventional hardware - a blow torch, iron and other heated tools - along with paper, encaustics, photog...

Based on fragments of authentic photographs and notes, Maja creates a reconstruction of a past she never experienced. It is a young artist's visual interpretation of someone else's memory. She reflects on the reliability of images and a melancholic nostalgia — “a longing to return to a place I have never been.” The artist raises questions about the possibilities of conveying memory and the relationship between image and truth, constructing a visual interpretation of a time period she never knew through her paintings. ⬜️ The work is exhibited at Contour Art...

Medium: paint chip sample mosaic on panel Born in 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Carlton Scott Sturgill received his Masters of Arts (Fine Art) from London’s Chelsea Collage of Art in De...

A contemporary oil painting on linen by American artist A.J. Fries. Artist’s Statement: These works are an extension of a small series of realistic paintings that I did of graves...