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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Security Envelopes, Naschshub (Supply), aka The Köln Show, 1990
April 24 – May 26, 1990 Nine Cologne based galleries participated – a 50 part version of the Security Envelope grid was exhibited at Monika Sprüth in Cologne....
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Security Envelopes, Whitney Biennial, 1989
…This enlarged isolation lays bare the pattern’s indirect kinship with various kinds of modernist abstraction., from gesturalism to the rough-hewn geometric patterning of Jasper John’s...
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American Art Today: A View from the Whitney 1989 Biennial Exhibition
Recorded the (very early) morning after the opening. So young. And hungover. At 18:20.
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Flash Art, Summer 1988
Marc Selwyn: How important is it for the end product to be beautiful in the conventional sense, or at least invoke a mood, to have...
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Christopher Knight, Herald Examiner, 1988
Cindy Bernard’s black and white pictures call upon the twin traditions of documentary and of straight photography. With the critically analytic hand of a conceptual...
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