First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.
This publication is the first major catalogue of the work of feminist artist Judith Bernstein, and was created in conjunction with the artist's retrospective at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway in 2016. A former Guerilla Girl and founding member of A.I.R Gallery, New York, Bernstein has worked consistently for over five decades despite censorship and periods of art world neglect. Titled
Judith Bernstein Rising, the catalogue serves as the first publication to contextualize Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.
The catalogue presents a variety of archival images tracing the artist's fifty-year career from the 1960s through the present day, as well as installation images from the exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger, and commissioned texts from artist and writer Thomas Micchelli, and Le Tigre band member and writer Johanna Fateman, as well as an interview by artist
Maurizio Cattelan.
Published following the artist's exhibition at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway, from February 4 to May 15, 2016.
Judith Bernstein (born 1942 in Newark, New Jersey)
is a
feminist artist best known for her
erotic drawings and graffiti art. Since receiving her MFA from Yale in 1967, she has developed a reputation as one of the most unwaveringly provocative artists of her generation, exploring connections between the political and the sexual. Steadfast in her cultural, political, and social critique, she surged into art world prominence in the early 1970s with her monumental anti-war and feminist charcoal drawings of penis-screw hybrids—one of the artist's most recognizable motifs. Bernstein was a founding member of A.I.R. Gallery as well as an early member of many art and activist organizations including Guerrilla Girls, Art Workers' Coalition, and Fight Censorship.
Bernstein has been awarded numerous accolades throughout her career and has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at museums in New York and abroad. Her monumental 9 x 12 feet charcoal drawing Horizontal was purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in 2023.
