Art Monthly, 1995
Two apparently diverse national myths of land and people are explored in recent photographic exhibitions by Cindy Bernard and John Kippin….the work of both photographers...
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James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, 1995
Curated by Andrew Cross. Travelled to Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Manchester, England Catalogue excerpt: Durden, Mark, Screen Memories, 1995
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Logic of Concealment, 1994
….The Grid outlines a telary network that doubles the actual path a letter takes from point A to point B. It also plays heavily on...
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Security Envelopes, Center for Creative Photography, 1993
Since the late nineteenth century, the technical capability of photography to accurately describe and convincingly distort the visual world has exponentially increased. It is only...
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Ask the Dust, Exhibit A, Serpentine Gallery, 1992
…Once included in the complex narrative of a particular film, the landscapes have often become symbolic of a particular vision of America. The vision, once...
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Los Angeles Times, 1992
If Ask the Dust deals obliquely with the difficult relationship between art and life, the new word does so more insistently. Here art is not...
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Security Envelopes, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1991
Bonnie Clearwater, Cindy Bernard, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1991
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Artforum, 1990
Bernard’s strategy entails a two-way deconstruction. By draining the original film’s mise-en-scéne of all narrative and semiotic connections, Bernard familiarizes the filmic through reprivileging the...
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Ask the Dust, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, 1990
…I’m thinking, time for a beer, just as every cloud in the sky leaves me with nothing to think about but an infinity of the...
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