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
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 ReadingAsk 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...
Continue ReadingLos 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...
Continue ReadingArtforum, 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...
Continue ReadingAsk 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...
Continue ReadingSecurity 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....
Continue ReadingFlash 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...
Continue ReadingChristopher 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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