Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.7.2, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Cindy Bernard Artist ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.cindybernard.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Studio Journal](https://www.cindybernard.com/journal/) - The journal of artist and activist Cindy Bernard - [I Am Hard To Find, Solo Exhibition at Lazy Eye Gallery](https://www.cindybernard.com/i-am-hard-to-find-solo-exhibition-at-lazy-eye-gallery/) - #post_excerptVery pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new watercolors and paintings at Lazy Eye, located on Yucca Mesa, November 2 - December 5, 2021. - [Ask the Dust: Dirty Harry (1971-1990) included in "Not I" at LACMA](https://www.cindybernard.com/ask-the-dust-dirty-harry-1971-1990-included-in-not-i-at-lacma/) - So great to finally see Not I, Throwing Voices (1500 BCE - 2020 BCE) curated by the fab Jose Luis Blondet at LACMA, on view through July 25, 2021. - [Pollock-Krasner Grant](https://www.cindybernard.com/pollock-krasner-grant/) - Thrilled to announce that I'm receiving a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant! So honored. Bowing down to Lee Krasner for having the foresight to establish a Foundation dedicated to supporting artists with needed unrestricted funds. Thanks to everyone at the Pollock Krasner Foundation and those who supported my application. - [Sharon Mizota reviews Things Change, Things Stay the Same for LA Times](https://www.cindybernard.com/sharon-mizota-reviews-things-change-things-stay-the-same-for-la-times/) - Sharon Mizota reviews ""Things Change, Things Stay the Same for LA Times, May 2017 - [Ezrha Jean Black reviews Things Change, Things Stay the Same for Artillery](https://www.cindybernard.com/ezrha-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 is dead. At this point it’s far more likely the planet will die before abstract painting. Not exactly the cheeriest thought – but I get it. Today, as we face - [Security Envelope Grid Acquired by the Whitney Museum](https://www.cindybernard.com/security-envelope-grid-acquired-by-whitney/) - 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 Christie Mitchell and Donna de Salvo for sticking with me for more than a year, to Karen Hillenburg, Abby Sher and David Johnson for their support and Joel Wachs, Scott - [Two Roads included in « Il est une fois dans l’Ouest » at the FRAC MECA in Bordeaux](https://www.cindybernard.com/two-roads-included-in-il-est-une-fois-dans-louest-at-the-frac-meca-in-bordeaux/) - "The first exhibition of Frac at the MECA, inviting a host of artists and curators, is original and anchored in New Aquitaine: a manifesto in a way. If its title is reminiscent of a well-known western, its purpose is to tell a story that combines the present, time quests and experiences, those of an abundant - [Hunter Drohojowska-Philp reviews Things Change, Things Stay the Same for KCRW](https://www.cindybernard.com/hunter-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 meant to prevent anyone from seeing inside. The arrangements of lines and checks, framed and presented in grids, were titled after the sender of each envelope: Merrill Lynch, the IRS, - [Solo exhibition, Richard Telles Fine Art, Opening May 20, 2017](https://www.cindybernard.com/telles-solo-show-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 first solo gallery exhibition in Los Angeles in 13 years (OMG!). The exhibition features recent watercolors from Vinland in the Beverly space, the LA debut of the complete 100 part - [UCross Residency, February / March, 2017](https://www.cindybernard.com/ucross-2017/) - I'm finding that the isolated production time provided by residencies accelerates progress in my work...so I was happy to have the opportunity to spend time at UCross in Wyoming. There were about 10 of us, a mixture of writers, composers and visual artists. We mostly kept to ourselves, meeting only for a communal dinner on - [Lesson to young artists...](https://www.cindybernard.com/lesson-to-young-artists/) - .keep track of your work and don't trust your gallery to do it for you. A diagram of the fate of some of the Security Envelope works from my first solo show. - [Lefebvre, Martin, "Landscape and Narrative Cinema”](https://www.cindybernard.com/lefebvre-martin-landscape-and-narrative-cinema/) - Arresting the film image, literally deterritorializing the setting by transposing it from film to photography, all the while severing its narrative bond and offering it back to us emptied of action and characters, Bernard's photographs retrieve or recover what some of us might have otherwise missed in our haste: landscapes that we can contemplate. And - [Your Personal View At Gallery Luisotti, Opening July 30](https://www.cindybernard.com/your-personal-view-at-gallery-luisotti-opening-july-30/) - Recent work from Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism will be included in In the Cut a group exhibition curated by Michael Peña at Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica. From Michael: "every girl goes through a photography phase” brings together five artists, all women, at the height of summer to explore the intersection of recreation - [Instagram and Facebook delete Your Personal View install shots](https://www.cindybernard.com/censored-ypv-install-shots/) - On August 7, Gallery Luisotti published installation shots from In the Cut on Facebook and Instagram. Within a few hours, the images containing my work were removed without explanation by both social media platforms. The works in question are from Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism, which draws on images from magazines promoting a social - [Manassas to Culpeper Folio to Premiere at Paris Photo, November 9-13](https://www.cindybernard.com/manassas-to-culpeper-at-paris-photo/) - My first ever folio box, for Manassas to Culpeper, will premiere at the 20th edition of Paris Photo, presented by Gallery Luisotti (Booth A24). Manassas to Culpeper is a 98 part portfolio stemming from my interest in time, duration and chance, shot on the Northeast Regional train while traveling in Virginia. Image: Manassas to Culpeper, 2014-15/2016, - [The Whitney Acquires Ask The Dust: The Godfather (1970/1990)](https://www.cindybernard.com/whitney-atd-the-godfather/) - The Whitney Museum of American Art has acquired Ask the Dust: The Godfather (1970/1990), 1990 - the second NY based museum to add a work from Ask the Dust to its collection. Thanks to John Baldessari for making it possible and to Donna De Salvo and the Whitney curatorial staff, especially Jay Sanders and Christie - [Security Envelopes, Naschshub (Supply), aka The Köln Show, 1990](https://www.cindybernard.com/naschshub-supply-aka-the-koln-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. From the Sprüth Magers website: In the 1980s and early-90s, the city of Cologne was one of the most important centres for contemporary art in Europe. With its many galleries, artist - [Studio visit with Howard Smith, NY, July 2016](https://www.cindybernard.com/howard-smith/) - On my recent trip to NY, I spent my first night on my good friend Mike Smith's couch (long story). On the wall beside me were these amazing little paintings. They reminded me of the odd shapes of my quilt project - I had to know who made them. Turns out they're by Mike's older brother Howard Smith! - [Meadowlark Lemon, 83; Ellsworth Kelly, 92; Haskell Wexler 93](https://www.cindybernard.com/meadowlark-lemon-83-ellsworth-kelly-92-haskell-wexler-93/) - One day, 3 icons. Ellsworth Kelly Mr. Kelly was as adamant about what his art was not as about what it was. Unlike the work of the early European modernists he admired, it was not about social theory. It was not about geometry or abstraction as ends in themselves. And although he derived many of - [Year Long Loop at Human Resources, November 19-20, 2011](https://www.cindybernard.com/year-long-loop-at-human-resources-november-2011/) - [Location Proposal #2 Acquired by MOMA!](https://www.cindybernard.com/location-proposal-2-acquired-by-moma/) - Very happy to announce that all 18 parts of Location Proposal #2 have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art. - [Early Work in The Accomplices, Opening June 11](https://www.cindybernard.com/early-work-in-the-accomplices-opening-june-11/) - A rare opportunity to see very early work from 1986, a precursor to the more widely exhibited Security Envelope Grid. The Accomplices accompanies an exhibition of Richard Prince ephemera at Edward Cella Art & Architecture in Los Angeles - both curated by Carole Ann Klonarides. The opening reception is June 11, from 6-8pm and the exhibition runs - [Ask the Dust: Vertigo (1958/1990) acquired by MOMA!](https://www.cindybernard.com/ask-the-dust-vertigo-19581990-acquired-by-moma/) - Thanks to David Platzker and Roxana Marcoci for guiding my work into the collection and to John Baldessari for donating it! - [MacDowell, Weeks 1 and 2](https://www.cindybernard.com/macdowell-weeks-1-and-2/) - MacDowell is my first non teaching residency and so far it's been amazing. Four weeks of time, supported in every way possible. Lunch is even delivered to my door each day, left just outside on the screen porch so as not to disturb the working process. Extraordinary. I'm writing from a library filled with contributions from other MacDowell - [MacDowell Residency, Weeks 3 and 4](https://www.cindybernard.com/macdowell-weeks-3-and-4/) - Weeks 3 and 4 brought spring to MacDowell, the departure of new friends and the end of my time there having completed 123 templates and 35 watercolors for Vinland and 51 new works for Your Personal View of (Social) Nudism. 31 extremely productive days, among the best days ever. Read about weeks 1 and 2. - [Aunt Sus sings Salvation Army hymns](https://www.cindybernard.com/aunt-sus-sings-salvation-army-hymns/) - The writing is faint but reads "Aunt Susanna, age 91" - a recording of my great grandmother singing Salvation Army hymns made by Calvin Osmond in Beaches, Newfoundland, 1971. - [Don't Look Back: The 1990's at MOCA](https://www.cindybernard.com/dont-look-back-the-1990s-at-moca/) - Received an email that works from Ask the Dust will be including in the next big permanent collection show at MOCA - Don't Look Back on view March 12 - July 11, 2016. More when I know more! Update: Thanks to BK for the shot Ask the Dust in Don't Look Back at MOCA! - [Cy Twombly detail from IG](https://www.cindybernard.com/cy-twombly-detail-from-ig/) - [Rafa's "WTF Mom?" look](https://www.cindybernard.com/rafas-wtf-mom-look/) - Studio chaos as I prep for subletting while I'm away at MacDowell. Leaving in 2 days! - [Heading to MacDowell - House and / or studio to sublet](https://www.cindybernard.com/house-and-studio-to-sublet/) - Honored to have the opportunity to spend time working at MacDowell! Hoping to subsidize my visit via a short term sublet of my house and / or my studio February 10 - March 14. The house and studio are a 5 minute drive from each other. Both are easy short drives to Occidental, Art Center and other area - [New York Gallery Crawl, November 2015](https://www.cindybernard.com/ny-gallery-crawl-november-2015/) - Whatever caught my eye, for all sorts of reasons, in no particular order. Although I was really taken with Alvin Baltrop's work....so a bit more on Alvin Baltrop and Gordon Matta-Clark. https://youtu.be/gxD29oI3tjI - [Los Angeles Gallery Crawl, December 2015](https://www.cindybernard.com/los-angeles-gallery-crawl-december-2015/) - Whatever caught my eye, for all sorts of reasons, in no particular order. - [Manassas to Culpepper - first enlargements!](https://www.cindybernard.com/manassas-to-culpepper-enlargements/) - Experimenting with printing a few of the works from 98 part portfolio Manassas to Culpepper at a larger scale.....From left: Manassas to Culpepper: IMG_5715, IMG_5754, IMG_5756, 2014/2015. These are 16 x 21.5 inches each, may try for slightly larger. We'll see how those iPhone 4 images hold up....kind of liking the triptych though. - [Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact Catalog](https://www.cindybernard.com/walkers-hollywood-afterlives-in-art-and-artifact-catalog/) - Ruben, Robert M., Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, 2015, p. 30, 179, ill. - [Location Proposal #2 at MoMI](https://www.cindybernard.com/location-proposal-2-at-momi/) - Up for the first time 10(?) years? - [Charles Curtis at the Schindler House](https://www.cindybernard.com/charles-curtis-at-the-schindler-house/) - I was at UVA in Charlottesville for Charles Curtis' last SASSAS appearance so I made sure to be in town for this one. So good it reaffirmed how much I love the Schindler House as a performance space. Thinking seriously of making this happen EVERY year. - [Lone Grove Tornado Memorial](https://www.cindybernard.com/lone-grove/) - Next to the small park bandshell in Lone Grove, Oklahoma, photographed in 2013. Lone Grove was hit by an EF4 tornado on February 10, 2009. It destroyed 166 homes and businesses and killed 8 in a town of about 4500 people. For more on the bandshell series see: https://www.cindybernard.com/works/bandshells/ - [Strangers on a train](https://www.cindybernard.com/strangers-on-a-train/) - My favorite NY subway moment from last week. - [And then there's this...](https://www.cindybernard.com/and-then-theres-this/) - Mrs. Yolande Reed - "Runs Nudist Camp" (self-employed; from Perryville, PA), aired 6/14/53 - [Marguerite Empey](https://www.cindybernard.com/marguerite-empey/) - Continuing work on my social nudism project, I've realized that at least 3 of the images are of the same person – Marguerite Empey, also known as Diane Webber, apparently a favorite subject of Ed Lange, who "recognized Diane's potential to make sunbathing more attractive to the general public." I LOVE that she was also photographed by Russ Meyer....who - [Chantal Akerman](https://www.cindybernard.com/chantal-akerman/) - From the NYT obit: Mr. Mazzanti recalled asking Ms. Akerman how she had edited “Hotel Monterey,” a silent film about a Lower Manhattan hotel that she had made in 1972. “She said, ‘I was breathing, and then at one point I understood it was the time to cut. It was my breathing that decided the - [Working late...](https://www.cindybernard.com/working-late/) - ...but the eating is good. - [Yoshi Wada and Tashi Wada at the Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook](https://www.cindybernard.com/wadas-at-the-overlook/) - It was AMAZING. I first tried to get Yoshi Wada to Los Angeles 8 years ago! Glad to have waited because this was a perfect match of site and artists, which is exactly what SASSAS is about. Thanks to SASSAS Assistant Directors Christina Ondrus and Daniel Corral – together we were finally able to make it happen (as - [What's wrong with this cover?](https://www.cindybernard.com/whats-wrong-with-this-cover/) - 7 photographers, 2 women. Wow, almost 30%. Seems like that's the new ceiling. Not good enough NYT. - [Noah Purifoy at LACMA](https://www.cindybernard.com/noah-purifoy-at-lacma/) - It's a great show - closes tomorrow (Sunday, September 27). You have to see it. But for me, seeing the work torn from the desert was like having my heart wrested from my chest. - [The Inquisitive Musician, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2011](https://www.cindybernard.com/los-angeles-county-museum-of-art-2011/) - The Inquisitive Musician, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 7, 2011 Curated by Jose Luis Blondet The Inquisitive Musician is an adaptation of a seventeenth-century German satire attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Musicus Curiosus, or Battalus, the Inquisitive Musician; the Struggle for Precedence between the Kunst Pfeifer and the Common Players. The satire pits itinerant - [Brown paper wrapper](https://www.cindybernard.com/brown-paper-wrapper/) - More research and yes, they really did come in brown paper wrapper. - [Good naked, bad naked](https://www.cindybernard.com/good-naked-bad-naked/) - "Pickle Jar" from Seinfeld, The Apology, Season 9, Episode 9 - Thanks to Julie for the reference! - [matchy matchy](https://www.cindybernard.com/matchy-matchy/) - This image from Eden looked familiar....then it hit me.......from MOMA: Christopher Williams TecTake Luxus Strandkorb grau/weiß Model no.: 400636 Material: wood/plastic Dimensions (height/width/depth): 154 cm × 116 cm × 77 cm Weight: 49 kg Manufactured by Ningbo Jin Mao Import & Export Co., Ltd, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China for TecTake GmbH, Igersheim, Germany Model: Zimra - [Coming in November to MoMI - Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact](https://www.cindybernard.com/coming-in-november-walkers/) - Featuring the first installation of projections from Location Proposal #2 in 15 years! In glorious 35mm (slides)! From MoMI: Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact November 7, 2015–April 10, 2016 The reimagining and recycling of Hollywood iconography in contemporary art, and the way that movies live on in our personal and cultural memories, are explored in - [Rain delay tweeters...](https://www.cindybernard.com/rain-delay-tweeters/) - [The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage and Commemoration , 2012](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-san-francisco-of-alfred-hitchcocks-vertigo-place-pilgrimage-and-commemoration-2012/) - Cunningham, Douglas, "Proposed Locations: On Postmodern Tributes to Vertigo and Place: Cindy Bernard in conversation with Douglas Cunningham," The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: Place, Pilgrimage and Commemoration , 2012 Sprengler, Christine, " The Vestiges of Vertigo in Contemporary Art: Cindy Bernard, David Reed and Douglas Gordon," The San Francisco of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo: - [Artforum, 1990](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 landscape as a "neutral" site. But landscape isn't a neutral site; it's a constructed representation. We read into it all sorts of mediated, cultural and ideological connotations, reflecting various frames - [Los Angeles Times, 1992](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 envisioned as a crystallization of life – more full, more complete, and more lasting: rather life emerges as the (perfected) imitation of art. Turn to the left, and encounter the - [Ask the Dust, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, 1990](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 darkest, most relentless, blue. – Benjamin Weissman, Desert from The Why I Love Violence Speech Cindy Bernard, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Text by Benjamin Weissman, 1990 - [Flash Art, 1991](https://www.cindybernard.com/flash-art-1991/) - Troncy, Eric, Cindy Bernard: Air de Paris, Flash Art, Summer 1991 - [Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 1997](https://www.cindybernard.com/frankfurter-allgemeine-zeitung-faz-1997/) - Ebner, Jorn, Cindy Bernard, Giuseppe Gabellone, Christine Borland, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 26, 1997 - [Successful variations on a theme in Oak Park](https://www.cindybernard.com/successful-variations-on-a-theme-in-oak-park/) - ...Bernard is a photographer who also organizes experimental music events in Los Angeles. Some of her color photographs are related to the events she organizes. Others are part of a recent taxonomy of band shells in the American Mid-west. Her exhibition, too, has only two pieces. One is based on a document of a 2003 - [Schindler Lab, Musings, 2015](https://www.cindybernard.com/schindler-lab-musings-2015/) - I am intimate with the Schindler House. I’ve trespassed at 3 A.M. to stumble through her landscaping and peer into her windows, impenetrable in the darkness. I’ve crawled on her cold concrete floors until my joints swelled and watched helplessly as rain puddled in her corners. I’ve cut templates for each clerestory, pane, and glass - [LA Weekly, February 2000](https://www.cindybernard.com/la-weekly-february-2000/) - Frank, Peter, Installation of the Week: Cindy Bernard: Location Proposal #2, LA Weekly, February 11-17, 2000 - [Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music Since 1900](https://www.cindybernard.com/visual-music-synaesthesia-in-art-and-music-since-1900/) - Installation documentation, projections+sound (aka Location Proposal #6), collaboration with Joseph Hammer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 12 = May 22, 2005 https://youtu.be/oW_Gx7BeRZ0 - [Notorious: Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, 1999](https://www.cindybernard.com/notorious-hitchcock-and-contemporary-art-1999/) - Museum of Modern Art, Oxford travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; Kunsthalle Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense; Fondació "la Caixa," Madrid; Tokyo Opera City Art Museum, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; Millenium Art Gallery, Sheffield; Provinciaal Centrum voor Beeldende Kunsten, Hasselt, Belgium. Brougher, Kerry, - [Sprengler, Christine, Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, 2014](https://www.cindybernard.com/sprengler-christine-hitchcock-and-contemporary-art-2014/) - Cover shot! Sprengler, Christine, "Cinephilic Pilgrimages " (excerpt), Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, 2014 (Ask the Dust) Sprengler, Christine, "Remediation and Intermediality " (excerpt), Hitchcock and Contemporary Art, 2014 (Location Proposal #2) - [Warte, bis es dunkel ist. Eine Liebeserklärung ans Kino, 2002](https://www.cindybernard.com/warte-bis-es-dunkel-ist-eine-liebeserklarung-ans-kino-2002/) - [Kino und Kunst, 2003](https://www.cindybernard.com/kino-und-kunst-2003/) - Excerpt, Heinz Peter Schwerfel, Kino Und Kunst, 2003 - [James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, 1995](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 - [Hall of Mirrors, Art and Film Since 1945, 1996](https://www.cindybernard.com/hall-of-mirrors-art-and-film-since-1945-1996/) - Travelled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1996), Wexner Center for the Arts (1996-97), Palazzo della Esposizioni (1997), MCA, Chicago (1997-98). Catalogue excerpt coming soon. - [Fabric Photos, Room 9, 1987](https://www.cindybernard.com/room-9-1987/) - From the press release, co-authored by Cindy Bernard, Martha Godfrey and Liz Larner, February 1987 Local artists Martha Godfrey, Cindy Bernard and Liz Larner will be showing their artwork for one n1ght only on March 28 in Room 9 of the Tropicana Motel, 8585 Santa Monica Blvd. in Hollywood. A reception will be held from - [Fabric Photos, The Spiral of Artificiality, 1987](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-spiral-of-artificiality-1987/) - Cindy Bernard uses the photographic closeup to comment on painting. Bernard's black and white images of fabric patterns from dresses, suits and remnants recall the abstract imagery of 1940s and 1950s painting. Yet Bernard's work is not simply imitative. In selecting fabric patterns as her subject matter, Bernard alludes to the modem breakdown in categorical - [Security Envelopes, Michael Kohn Gallery, 1988](https://www.cindybernard.com/michael-kohn-gallery-1988/) - [Security Envelopes, Whitney Biennial, 1989](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 cross-hatching. Her gird of installed photographs becomes an extended index to what are commonly perceived as the highly individual marking systems of contemporary art..... Biennial, New York: Whitney Museum of - [Security Envelopes, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1991](https://www.cindybernard.com/centro-cultural-arte-contemporaneo-1991/) - Bonnie Clearwater, Cindy Bernard, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, 1991 - [Ask the Dust, Exhibit A, Serpentine Gallery, 1992](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 remove from the film context and replaced within an art context, presents a mute landscape of possibilities and loss. One thinks of Bernard's scouring the Arizona landscape to find the place - [Security Envelopes, Center for Creative Photography, 1993](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 now, with widespread media literacy, that the distortion side of the photographic equation has gained popular acceptance. However, the art of photography has long played against the public’s deep-seated documentary - [Ask the Dust, Lyon Biennale, 1995](https://www.cindybernard.com/lyon-biennale-1995/) - Lyon Biennale Catalogue Excerpt - [Tracy Williams LTD, 2005](https://www.cindybernard.com/tracy-williams-ltd-2005/) - Cindy Bernard, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, 4 November - 23 December 2005 - [The Inquisitive Musician, Stedelijk Museum, Holland Festival, 2013](https://www.cindybernard.com/stedelijk-museum-holland-festival-2013/) - The Inquisitive Musician, The Stedelijk Museum and Holland Festival, June 22-23, 2013 Curated by Hendrik Folkerts During the Holland Festival the Stedelijk Museum will be alive with a battle between ‘beer fiddlers’ and ‘art pipers’. The American artist Cindy Bernard collaborating with New York / New Zealand musician David Watson adapted composer Johann Kuhnau’s 17th century - [Vinland, Fralin Museum, University of Virginia, 2014](https://www.cindybernard.com/fralin-museum-university-of-virginia-2014/) - Vinland, Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, June 27 - August 31, 2014 Curated by Jennifer Farrell Didactic text: Vinland, a new project by the Los Angeles-based artist Cindy Bernard, is a meditation on the complex and continually shifting relationships between spaces, social and economic structures, and personal and collective histories. Drawn - [Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, 2014](https://www.cindybernard.com/another-cats-show-356-mission-2014/) - Can you find the kitty? Another Cats Show, 356 S. Mission Rd., August 16 - September 14, 2014 - [Vertigo, The Making of a Hitchcock Classic, 1998](https://www.cindybernard.com/vertigo-the-making-of-a-hitchcock-classic-1998/) - ...Bernard's work demonstrates the power of location to evoke the memory of a film–perhaps most provocatively with Vertigo, a film itself concerned with memory and a film so linked to it's location that it has inspired decades of pilgrimage. – Dan Auiler Excerpt, Auiler, Dan, Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic, 1998 - [Steven Jacobs, Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts, 2011](https://www.cindybernard.com/steven-jacobs-framing-pictures-film-and-the-visual-arts-2011/) - Jacobs, Steven, Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts, Edinburgh University Press, 2011 pp. 155, 162, - [Art and Photography, 2003](https://www.cindybernard.com/art-and-photography-2003/) - Art and Photography, David Campany, Ed, Phaidon Themes and Movements series, 2003 - [Silent Key, Boston Center of the Arts, 2008-2009](https://www.cindybernard.com/silent-key-boston-center-of-the-arts-2008-2009/) - Silent Key, Boston Center of the Arts, December 12, 2008 - February 15, 2009 Curated by Jose Luis Blondet Download the brochure. Brochure text: For most of my life, I lived with a soundtrack of blips and bleeps emanating from my grandfather’s “radio room.” A dedicated “Dx-er” operating first as W6ANN and later as W6BA, - [American Art Today: A View from the Whitney 1989 Biennial Exhibition](https://www.cindybernard.com/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. - [Border Crossings, 1996](https://www.cindybernard.com/border-crossings-1996/) - In Ask the Dust, Bernard is the surrogate and the solitary traveller. Her images of the fictional are not appropriations; they are real. It is essential to the meaning of this work that Bernard has visited these sites in the flesh. Like Cindy Sherman, in her early and best work, the Untitled Film Stills, Bernard's production - [Art Monthly, 1995](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 seems haunted... ...Bernard's ghosts are absences which leave the images dislocated, as though the focus of attention were misplaced, fixing on something that had long since passed away. Often what - [Sopranos, Season 6, Episode 4](https://www.cindybernard.com/sopranos-season-6-episode-4/) - [Logic of Concealment, 1994](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 the presumed intermediaries, faceless couriers in the postal limbo. Any message is affected by its means of transport, and so contextualized by the manner of delivery. This occurs in a - [Christopher Knight, Herald Examiner, 1988](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 artist, however, she deftly turns both of those modes inside out. A telling consideration of photography ensues.... ...The tension between fact and commentary that characterizes a documentary picture dramatically abuts - [LA Weekly, 1987](https://www.cindybernard.com/view-with-a-room-1987/) - Robbie Conal, View With A Room. LA Weekly, March, 1987 - [Yesss.....???](https://www.cindybernard.com/yesss/) - [The Responsive Eye](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-responsive-eye/) - The Responsive Eye, MOMA, 1965, William Seitz, curator. Perceptual abstraction - “ideological focus has moved from the outside world… and entered the incompletely explored region between the cornea and the brain.” As summarized by Princenthal in the Agnes Martin bio, “it's dematerialized by uniform surface treatment, reflective or transparent materials, and a battery of optical - [Tom of Finland Foundation](https://www.cindybernard.com/tom-of-finland-foundation/) - Spent the afternoon perusing nudist mags at the ToF. Great people there. This is from Nudist News... - [Labor Day ](https://www.cindybernard.com/labor-day/) - HIghland Park prepares for a three day weekend. - [In front of my studio, weekend evenings](https://www.cindybernard.com/my-studio-weekend-evenings/) - [Thinking about Tom Consilvio](https://www.cindybernard.com/thinking-about-tom-consilvio/) - As I've been scanning the 100 images that make up the Security Envelope series, I started to think about the man who printed almost all of them - Tom Consilvio of SilverLab who died in 1991. Tom was well known as the printer who took on the task of proofing the thousands of rolls of film - [Artforum, 2005](https://www.cindybernard.com/artforum-2005/) - Tumlir, Jan, "Cindy Bernard: Margo Leavin Gallery", Artforum, March 2005, pp. 244-5, ill. pg. 244 Documenting, Becher style, the morphological range of the bandshells that she encountered in parks throughout California and the Midwest, Bernard leaves both the audience area and the stage empty, shifting the focus to a form of civic architecture. From a 1928 World War - [Time Out New York, 2005](https://www.cindybernard.com/time-out-new-york-2005/) - Cornell, Lauren, Cindy Bernard, Time Out New York, Issue 451, December 1-7, 2005 - [Silent Key, Tracy Williams LTD, 2008](https://www.cindybernard.com/silent-key-tracy-williams-ltd-2008/) - Silent Key, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York, 12 September - 25 October 2008 Tracy Williams, Ltd. is pleased to present Silent Key, an exhibition of photographs and pigment prints by Los Angeles-based artist, Cindy Bernard. In Bernard’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, the artist utilizes the concept of sound as subject, via a series - [The City Proper, Margo Leavin Gallery, 2010](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-city-proper-margo-leavin-gallery-2010/) - The City Proper, curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, November 20 - January 29, 2011 The legacy of New Topographics, the 1975 landmark exhibition at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY—of which Gohlke was a part—echoes throughout The City Proper, as photographers train their lens on Southern California’s urban landscape. Predominately focused on images - [Nightstick, Cindy Bernard and Joseph Hammer, 1999](https://www.cindybernard.com/nightstick-cindy-bernard-and-joseph-hammer-1999/) - Inspired by the iconic representation of such landscapes as the desert images portrayed in the the films of John Ford and the magical woods often visualized in the books of the Brothers Grimm, this psychedelic Bonnie and Clyde combine their talents to create a unique performance experience of light and sound. They are on a - [Voice Choices: Silent Key](https://www.cindybernard.com/voice-choices-silent-key/) - From the Village Voice: The gallery (Tracy Williams LTD) is densely hung with colorful reproductions of postcards that were originally sent from places that now exist only in old atlases: Nazi Germany, the USSR, Burma. Bernard's grandfather, a ham-radio operator from 1923 until he died in 1999, received the missives from other hams around the - [Postcards from the Edge](https://www.cindybernard.com/postcards-from-the-edge/) - Silent Key reviewed in the Boston Globe: Long before the Internet, ham radio operators built a buzzing web of communication around the world. Artist Cindy Bernard's grandfather, Bill Adams, got his license to operate a ham radio in 1923 and kept in touch with operators in distant countries until his death in 1999. Each contact - [The Artist's Museum at MOCA, LA Times, 2010](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-artists-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 Super-8 lamentation on the waning of film-based imagery in an emerging digital universe is linked to the passage of older, stucco-era L.A. Cindy Bernard's photographs of the vision-blocking interiors of - [Coming Up: Year Long Loop, KCET Voices, 2009](https://www.cindybernard.com/coming-up-year-long-loop-kcet-voices-2009/) - Willis, Holly, Coming Up: Year Long Loop, KCET Voices, September 16, 2009 An algorithm is "a machine for the motion of parts," says Alexander Galloway very elegantly in his bookGaming: On Algorithmic Culture. He writes extensively about video games, arguing that they offer us insight into the structures of today's information culture. I wonder, though, if - [A Year in the Life of Mt. Washington, LA Times, 2009](https://www.cindybernard.com/a-year-in-the-life-of-mt-washington-la-times-2009/) - Haithman, Diane, A Year in the Life of Mt. Washington, Culture Monster, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 2009 Culture Monster readers may remember multimedia artist Cindy Bernard as a force behind last year'sMOCA Mobilization, a grass-roots, save-the-museum movement that came into being in November after news stories surfaced about severe financial problems at the Museum of - [This Old Sonic House, LA Times, 2001](https://www.cindybernard.com/this-old-sonic-house-la-times-2001/) - Woodard, Joseph, This Old Sonic House, Los Angeles Time Sunday Calendar, July 22, 2001, pp 52-53 - [Boston Center for the Arts, Center Focus, 2008](https://www.cindybernard.com/boston-center-for-the-arts-center-focus-2008/) - Horrigan, Sean, Silent Key (Interview), Center Focus, Boston Center for the Arts Blog, December, 2008 When did you first become influenced by sound as an artist? One of my earliest memories is of my Grandfather playing 78 rpm records of children's stories such as The Three Little Pigs. We were prompted to turn the page - [The Lament Project, 2008](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-lament-project-1988/) - Interview with Cindy Bernard, The Lament Project: Texts, May 2008, ill. Image Gallery VIRALNET: Since "The Lament Project" is Viralnet.net's 2007-2008 online project, we're interested in your approach to sound in your visual art practice and your curatorial practice with SASSAS. Can you describe how and when you began incorporating sound with your visual work - [Flash Art, Summer 1988](https://www.cindybernard.com/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 the qualities and subtleties associated with conventional photography? Cindy Bernard: I want the fabric photos to be beautiful but not so sensuous as to distract from their source. That's why - [Agnes Martin and enlightenment](https://www.cindybernard.com/agnes-martin-and-enlightenment/) - You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life. – Agnes Martin - [Droning at the Fitzpatrick-Leland House](https://www.cindybernard.com/droning-at-the-leland-fitzpatrick-house/) - Scott Benzel at the Fitzpatrick Leland House (Photo by Cindy Bernard - [After 20 years in storage](https://www.cindybernard.com/after-20-years-in-storage/) - Bam! A beautiful Tim Ebner finally on the wall! - [In Concert at UNLV](https://www.cindybernard.com/in-concert-at-unlv/) - Just found while digging through tubes.... - [My week, captured by John](https://www.cindybernard.com/my-week-in-a-nutshell/) - Discovered while unpacking, perfect summary of the week. - [MOCA Mobilization is back in action, 2012](https://www.cindybernard.com/moca-mobilization-is-back-in-action/) - Excerpt from the LA Times The artist-led group known as MOCA Mobilization is back. The group, founded in 2008 by artists Cindy Bernard and Diana Thater, has posted online a petition calling for specific changes at the Museum of Contemporary Art, following a round of controversial layoffs and the resignations of all four artists on - [The Inquisitive Musician Top 10 | LACMA Unframed, 2011](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-inquisitive-musician-top-10/) - "This Saturday during Late Night at LACMA we are presenting a staged reading of The Inquisitive Musician, a project by artist Cindy Bernard and featuring a cast that includes writer Dick Hebdige, composer Gregory Lenczycki, artists and musicians Dave Muller, Ami Tallman and Marnie Weber, artist and activist Haruko Tanaka, experimental bagpiper David Watson, dean of - [What works](https://www.cindybernard.com/what-works/) - Amazing episode of This American Life. Makes a great companion to Show Me a Hero on HBO. Right now, all sorts of people are trying to rethink and reinvent education, to get poor minority kids performing as well as white kids. But there's one thing nobody tries anymore, despite lots of evidence that it works: - [Beach Break](https://www.cindybernard.com/beach-break/) - Paradise Cove, Malibu. Also thinking about.... - [High Desert Test Sites Postcard series, 2014](https://www.cindybernard.com/high-desert-test-sites-postcard-series-2014/) - Happy to be included in the 2014 HDTS Limited Edition Postcard Series! - [More than 400 turn out at the Geffen Contemporary to support troubled MOCA](https://www.cindybernard.com/more-than-400-turn-out-at-the-geffen-contemporary-to-support-troubled-moca/) - Excerpt from the LA Times About 450 people, including a number of prominent Los Angeles artists, crowded into the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary space in Little Tokyo on Sunday afternoon, drawn to a hastily arranged rally of sorts in support of MOCA, spurred by recent reports of dire financial problems that threaten the existence of - [Cindy Bernard's Playlist: Music as Self-Empowerment (bigthink.com), 2013](https://www.cindybernard.com/cindy-bernards-playlist-music-as-self-empowerment-bigthink-com/) - Brief interview with bigthink.com on the occasion of my MOCAtv playlist: One wants to believe that the Internet is a universal library but of course it's not - it's subject to censorship and antiquated ideas about copyright. When I visited my YouTube playlists for this project, I sadly discovered that several clips had disappeared, including - [Which Way LA, 2013](https://www.cindybernard.com/which-way-la-2013/) - Olney, Warren, MOCA, LACMA and the Future of Art in Los Angeles, KCRW, Los Angeles, March 13, 2013 - [Walking](https://www.cindybernard.com/walking/) - This couple walks San Rafael 2-3 times a day. There's a great story here.... - [Ask the Dust poetry](https://www.cindybernard.com/ask-the-dust-poetry/) - Found these poems based on Ask the Dust: Splendor in the Grass and Ask the Dust: Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! online. Trippy. - [The Tree](https://www.cindybernard.com/the-tree/) - "When I first made a grid,” Martin said, “I happened to be thinking of the innocence trees and then this grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence … and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, this is my vision." - [Futura Book Collection](https://www.cindybernard.com/futura-book-collection/) - Work made for Air de Paris, circa 1993 - [Lost & Found: Joshua Tree #33 (Gray), 1994](https://www.cindybernard.com/lost-and-found/) - Just discovered at the Princeton University Art Museum.... - [Finally](https://www.cindybernard.com/finally/) - After two months of unpacking, sorting and organizing, research for the first project realized in the new studio is on the wall! Feels great. In the gallery: pages from Proceedings, a post card from Giant Rock airport, pages from an ASA publication and a Henry Mockel drawing from Hot Air from the Desert. - [First SASSAS Records release](https://www.cindybernard.com/first-sassas-records-release/) - SASSAS Records V1.1 is out! Thanks to SASSAS Assistant Directors Daniel Corral and Christina Ondrus, Robey Clark of Pop Hop and V1.1 artists Dave Muller, Aaron Dilloway and Extended Organ! - [I'm not alone...](https://www.cindybernard.com/im-not-alone/) - Security Envelopes on the Big Things blog. Becky Johnson's buttons are my favorites! - [YouTube curated by Cindy Bernard, MOCAtv, 2013](https://www.cindybernard.com/youtube-curated-by-cindy-bernard-mocatv/) - [A Prehistory of Cindy Bernard’s Security Envelopes, 2010](https://www.cindybernard.com/a-prehistory-of-cindy-bernards-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, 2010 You might think it’s a comment on the mortgage meltdown, but you’d be wrong. Bernard did the Security Envelopes in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in the wake of - [CalArts Visiting Artist Lecture Series, MOCA MOBILIZATION ROUNDTABLE, September 27, 2012](https://www.cindybernard.com/calarts-visiting-artist-lecture-series-moca-mobilization-roundtable-september-27-2012/) - CalArts Visiting Artist Lecture Series Diana Thater & Cindy Bernard-MOCA MOBILIZATION ROUNDTABLE, September 27, 2012 Lecture video at Vimeo - [Not fade away](https://www.cindybernard.com/not-fade-away/) - Printing an archive copy for MOMA. Framed original from 1990 and an exhibition copy from 15 years ago (distortion due to iPhone angle). - [Senses of Cinema, May 2000](https://www.cindybernard.com/conomos-john-the-vertigo-of-time-senses-of-cinema-may-2000/) - Conomos, John, The Vertigo of Time, Senses of Cinema, May 2000 Cindy Bernard’s luminous installation Location Proposal No 2 (1997-99) has digitised the redwood forest sequence in Vertigo. This moving moment in Hitchcock’s film, which looks at an ancient redwood tree stump and its rings as an index of time, memory and measurement, evokes Cabrera - [Three by Vera](https://www.cindybernard.com/three-by-vera/) - Hanging a golden oldie for Mom's birthday - Three by Vera, 1986 - [Rainy day](https://www.cindybernard.com/rainy-day/) - At Bert and Catherine's Lautner for a Listening Party, an afternoon framed by music from the Balkins, Columbia and Africa. Amazing. - [Agnes Martin bio](https://www.cindybernard.com/agnes-martin-bio/) - Arrived! "Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky." – Willa Cather on New Mexico, Death Comes to the Archbishop, quoted in the new Agnus Martin bio - [27,000 photographs](https://www.cindybernard.com/27000-photographs/) - Robert Frank took more than 27,000 photographs on his year long trip, he choose only 83 for the Americans. This is what's so difficult to teach. - [Goodbye Public Storage](https://www.cindybernard.com/moving-in/) - Goodbye Public Storage, it's been a lovely 15 years! - [Brutus is here!](https://www.cindybernard.com/brutus-is-here/) - [Oldies](https://www.cindybernard.com/oldies/) - Topography proofs circa 1993-1994, wacky but I kind of like them! - [Kitsu's here!](https://www.cindybernard.com/kitsus-here/) ## Pages - [Cindy Bernard Studio](https://www.cindybernard.com/) - Studio journal and current and past projects by Los Angeles based artist Cindy Bernard - [About](https://www.cindybernard.com/about-2/) - I’m a post conceptual artist and activist who’s been making work and exhibiting for 40 years. Through 2019, I lived in Los Angeles where I founded the experimental organization The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS). I now live in Twentynine Palms where I produce my work and encourage civic engagement via - [Contact](https://www.cindybernard.com/contact/) - Get in Touch Δ Address Cindy Bernard P.O. Box 624 Joshua Tree, CA 92252 - [works at sound2cb.com](https://www.cindybernard.com/works-at-sound2cb-com/) - [Projects and works](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/) - AllAbsenceAbstractionCinema & MemoryCommunitiesMappingOil PaintingsPerformancePhotographsProjectionsPublic WorksSound & MusicTime & DurationVideoWatercolors Load More ProjectsLoad More ProjectsLoad More ProjectsLoad More ProjectsLoad More Projects - [Home Layout - Under Construction](https://www.cindybernard.com/home-layout-under-construction/) - We're currently working on our new website! It will be launching soon! Δ © 2015 Kwoon. All rights reserved. Theme by TommusRhodus. ## Portfolio - [The Desert Trumpet](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/the-desert-trumpet/) - The Desert Trumpet is a community newsletter that I founded in April 2022. It's published on Substack by 29 Palms Neighbors, which I co-founded with fellow Indian Cove residents Teeney Hood and Heidi Heard in June 2021. The group was initially focused on the transformation of 29 Palms neighborhoods by the influx of short term - [I Am Hard to Find (on-going)](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/i-am-hard-to-find/) - The I Am Hard to Find watercolors are based on maps drawn by delivery drivers on packages left at my home in 29 Palms. They are an homage to Stanley Brouwn. - [Map and Panel paintings (on-going)](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/map-and-panel-paintings-on-going/) - The map and panel oil paintings are a reconsideration of the 123 part watercolor Quilt (Gladys Osmond, The Beaches, Newfoundland, 2013) from 2016. - [Vinland paintings circa 2016-2017](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/vinland-quilt/) - Quilt (Gladys Osmond, The Beaches, Newfoundland, 2013), 2016, 123 watercolors, 11 x 8.5" each, and "Adjacent Panel" watercolors, both part of the Vinland series - [Block Watercolors circa 2018-2019](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/blocks/) - A series of 13 "block" watercolors, 44 x 34" each, all derived from a single source, which beg the question, “When does pattern collapse into abstraction?” - [Vinland Structures circa 2013-2014](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/vinland/) - Vinland is a meditation on the complex relationships between social and economic structures and personal and collective histories in two Newfoundland outports. - [Manassas to Culpeper Portfolio](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/manassas-to-culpeper/) - Manassas to Culpeper is a portfolio of 98 photographs stemming from my interest in time, duration and chance, shot while riding the Northeast Regional train. - [Security Envelopes](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/security-envelopes/) - 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 now, with widespread media literacy, that the distortion side of the photographic equation has gained popular acceptance. However, the art of photography has long played against the public's deep-seated documentary - [Learning to Listen](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/learning-to-listen/) - https://youtu.be/7fP7DLmrRyc Cindy Bernard, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (White), 2007, 17:43 (excerpt) - [angels gate dusk: installations + trios pulled from a hat](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/angels-gate-dusk/) - https://youtu.be/EEpUm7KXyIA Video excerpt, trio 4: Joseph Hammer, Marina Rosenfeld, Mike Watt From letters inviting artists to participate: The jam has two trajectories – one (primarily) aural and one (primarily) visual...The premise is that artists are often thrown together within a space by an outsider, usually a curator, and forced to deal with each other. Through that tension - [sound. and SASSAS](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/sassas/) - Origin Story In the Summer of 98, I had two small studios at Angels Gate Park in Pedro: G5 looking towards the harbor and Watt’s “practice pad” and F1 next to a metal band and facing the open sea. Inspired by bass and thrash and fueled by a Guggenheim fellowship, I organized angels gate dusk - [Mapping sound. / SASSAS](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/mapping-sound/) - https://youtu.be/pKPVlqJAp64 Highlights from Mapping sound., September 12, 2009 Mapping sound., the SASSAS 10th Anniversary Concert utilized sites in 8 Los Angeles neighborhoods located along an east/west corridor and featured more than 30 musicians drawn from the 10 year history of sound. for a day of concerts, presented free of charge. Concerts ran from 11am – 11pm starting at the Sylvan - [Year Long Loop](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/year-long-loop/) - Recorded between October 2004 and September 2005 and completed in 2011, Year Long Loop documents the sound and view as experienced from the vantage point of a Los Angeles ridge. The work consists of one 5 minute shot for each hour of the day, organized by month, resulting in a continuous 24 hour loop. Inspired - [Two Roads / Ask the Dust Trilogy](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/two-roads/) - If Ask the Dust deals obliquely with the difficult relationship between art and life, the new work does so more insistently. Here art is not envisioned as a crystallization of life – more full, more complete, and more lasting: rather life emerges as the (perfected) imitation of art. Turn to the left, and encounter the - [Location Proposal #2](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/location-proposal-2/) - https://vimeo.com/120549668 Cindy Bernard, Installation, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, January 2000 This shift from photography to the digital in Bernard's practice has complicated even further her engagements with time and space. In Ask the Dust, the photographic image functions as the site where different registers of time come into contact with one another: - [Silent Key / Deleted Entities 1925 -1996](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/silent-key-deleted-entities/) - Deleted Entities 1925 - 1996 consists of scans of QSL cards from hams operating in political entities that no longer exist such as the USSR, Nazi Germany, Korea and China during Japanese occupation, Japan and Germany during American occupation and Colonial Africa. When sorted by continent and date, the result is a spatial and durational - [The Inquisitive Musician / Tonic](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/iqm-tonic/) - The Inquisitive Musician The struggle for precedence between the Kunstfeifer and the Common Players presented in a sparkling new comedy A project by Cindy Bernard Translated and adapted by Cindy Bernard and David Hatcher Music director: David Watson The Inquisitive Musician is an adaptation of a 17th century satire attributed to Johann Kuhnau, Bach’s predecessor - [The Inquisitive Musician / LACMA](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/iqm-lacma/) - The Inquisitive Musician at LACMA (photo by Wild Don Lewis) The Inquisitive Musician The struggle for precedence between the Kunstfeifer and the Common Players presented in a sparkling new comedy A project by Cindy Bernard Translated and adapted by Cindy Bernard and David Hatcher Music director: David Watson Curated by Jose Luis Blondet The Inquisitive Musician is - [The Inquisitive Musician / Stedelijk](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/iqm-stedelijk/) - The Inquisitive Musician at the Stedelijk Museum (photos by Ernst_van_Deursen) The Inquisitive Musician The struggle for precedence between the Kunstfeifer and the Common Players presented in a sparkling new comedy A project by Cindy Bernard Translated and adapted by Cindy Bernard and David Hatcher Music director: David Watson The Inquisitive Musician is an adaptation of a 17th - [Fabric Photos](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/fabrics/) - From Flash Art, 1988 Mark Selwyn: Much of your work appears gestural, spontaneous and very intimate, yet the source of the image is a mechanical reproduction... Cindy Bernard: I'm intimating that there is a certain degree of calculation behind any gesture and that the degree of meaning attached to the artist's hand is over emphasized - [Bandshells](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/bandshells/) - These compositions elegantly overcome the pointed discrepancy between what a photograph is and what it is "of." Sitting atop the horizon line that bisects each image, the bandshells conflate the perspectival recession of the visual with the eddying projection of the aural. As the silence that is germane to the medium becomes figurally pervaded with - [Location Proposal #6 / projections+sound w/Joseph Hammer](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/projectionssound/) - Inspired by the iconic representation of such landscapes as the desert images portrayed in the the films of John Ford and the magical woods often visualized in the books of the Brothers Grimm, this psychedelic Bonnie and Clyde combine their talents to create a unique performance experience of light and sound. They are on a - [Welcome Inn Time Machine / SASSAS](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/welcome-inn-time-machine/) - In January 2012, I was co-curator and lead producer the largest SASSAS project to date: Welcome Inn Time Machine, a part of the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival. Welcome Inn Time Machine transformed the rooms of a Los Angeles motel into a venue for live performances—micro-concerts in individual motel rooms—creating a 6-hour tour - [Location Proposal #4 / Windows on Wilshire](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/windows-on-wilshire/) - [space, climate, light, mood](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/space-climate-light-mood/) - https://vimeo.com/120549669 space, climate, light, mood, a one evening performance in collaboration with Gabie Strong, David Patton, Ron Russell, Joseph Hammer and Joe Potts, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, February 16, 2000 space, climate, light, mood took as its point of departure R.M. Schindler's experience of camping in Yosemite and the - [Location Proposal #2 / Public Projections](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/location-proposal-2-public-projections/) - ...this work shows us the difficulties of making sense of indexicality with respect to Vertigo. It is a film that toys with what is real and fabricated. It is a film in which images (and people) continually deceive. Location Proposal #2 aims to grant us access to these complexities and to create the conditions necessary to think - [Ask the Dust / Ask the Dust Trilogy](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/ask-the-dust/) - I went beyond the clearing of his hut and looked toward the southwest. It was very cold and the moon was high, the stars in lush clusters across the blue dome of the sky. West and south and east spread a desolation of brush, somber Joshua trees and stumpy hills...” “I remembered road maps of - [Grandfather photos / Ask the Dust Trilogy](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/grandfather-photos/) - My grandfather, William Adams, has a collection of 3500 slides documenting family vacations. Interspersed throughout are images of the road of which I have selected twenty from 1950 to 1979, the years covered by his archive. The early trips are confined to the North American continent. Later he traveled to Hawaii and Haiti. Everywhere the - [sound. photos](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/sound-photos/) - ...Bernard is a photographer who also organizes experimental music events in Los Angeles. Some of her color photographs are related to the events she organizes. Others are part of a recent taxonomy of band shells in the American Mid-west. Her exhibition, too, has only two pieces. One is based on a document of a 2003 - [Silent Key / Antennas](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/silent-key-antennas/) - The series Silent Key charts the geopolitical map of the 20th Century as represented through QSL cards – printed traces of individual contacts which track a convoluted global narrative. “Silent Key” is ham lingo for a radio operator who has died. Other parts of the series are Deleted Entities and Portraits and Stations. - [Silent Key / July 15, 2010, 1pm](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/july-15-2010/) - According to the dictionary, the word range denotes, first of all, an arrangement: “to set in a row, or in rows, to dispose in the proper order.” In cowboy country, the range is essentially an open stretch of land given over to cattle, and these in turn range upon it. “To rove over and through” - [Silent Key / Portraits and Stations](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/silent-key-portraits-stations/) - https://youtu.be/SuoscXy2RwY The Portraits are derived from self portraits ham radio operators used on their QSL cards. For Stations, a friend returned to the return address on one of the cards and recorded what he found. The series Silent Key charts the geopolitical map of the 20th Century as represented through QSL cards – printed traces of - [MOCA Mobilization](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/moca-mobilization/) - MOCA Mobilization was co-founded by Cindy Bernard and Diana Thater in November 2008. The primary press release statements from 2008 and 20012 are below. More info can be found at mocamobilization.org and here in the journal. https://youtu.be/FtUmPqs_g9M View the full rally. IN SUPPORT OF THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES, November 23, 2008 Organized by MOCA Mobilization, - [Topographies](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/topographies/) - "If you look at walls that are stained or made of different kinds of stones and imagine some kind of scene, you begin to see them as creating a setting and you can think you see in them certain picturesque views of mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, broad valleys, and hills of different shapes. You - [Food Photomicrographs](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/food-photos/) - My favorite flavor is red – Gerald Ford Because it can create a lasting record of ephemeral phenomena the camera has long been used as a tool in microscopy. The resulting photomicrographs are a source of information for the scientist and wonder for the novice. Just as when one looks at a photograph an assumption is - [The Comedy of Washesbleil from The Inquisitive Musician](https://www.cindybernard.com/works/the-comedy-of-washesbleil/) - The Inquisitive Musician is an adaptation of a 17th century German satire which pits itinerant “beer fiddlers” against the official city sanctioned “Kunstpfeifer” (or “art piper”) in an argument over who is the better musician and has the right to perform and be fairly compensated. The beer fiddlers are asked to perform a comedy to ## Team Members - [Connor Gibson](https://www.cindybernard.com/team/connor-gibson/) - Nulla vitae elit libero, a pharetra augue. 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