Security Envelope Grid Acquired by the Whitney Museum
I am thrilled to announce that the 100 part Security Envelope Grid has found a home at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Thanks to...
Continue ReadingHunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews Things Change, Things Stay the Same for KCRW
…Another graduate of Cal Arts, Cindy Bernard gained much attention in 1988 for her photographs of patterns from the insides of security envelopes, a feature...
Continue ReadingEzrha Jean Black reviews Things Change, Things Stay the Same for Artillery
Periodically, we hear complaints (or alternatively, sighs of gratitude) from one quarter or another that painting is dead; or sometimes more specifically, that abstract painting...
Continue ReadingSolo exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Opening May 20, 2017
I’m pleased to announce Things Change, Things Stay the Same, opening at Richard Telles Fine Art on May 20 and running through July 1 – my...
Continue ReadingLesson to young artists…
…keep track of your work! A diagram of the fate of the small Security Envelope grids from my first solo show at in April / May 1988: two grids...
Continue ReadingA Prehistory of Cindy Bernard’s Security Envelopes, 2010
Poundstone, William, A Prehistory of Cindy Bernard’s Security Envelopes, Los Angeles County Museum on Fire, William Poundstone on Art and Chaos, ARTINFO , November 15,...
Continue ReadingThe Artist’s Museum at MOCA, LA Times, 2010
Knight, Christopher, Art Review: ‘The Artist’s Museum’ @ MOCA, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2010 One gallery holds camera works by five artists. Judy Fiskin’s...
Continue ReadingI’m not alone…
Security Envelopes on the Big Things blog. Becky Johnson’s buttons are my favorites!
Continue ReadingLogic 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...
Continue ReadingSecurity 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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