A brand new physique of work by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard. Bernhard obtained her BFA from the American Academy of Artwork in Chicago in 2011 and her MFA from Laguna Faculty of Artwork and Design in 2014. Her work explores themes of religious rupture, transcendence, and the connection between the human physique and the divine. On the middle of her newest exhibition, “Damaged Vessels”, is the metaphor of the physique as a container for spirit and perception. Drawing from archetypal associations between gold and divinity, Christian mysticism and modern existential anxiousness, Bernhard’s monumental six-foot work depict fractured golden varieties that stand in for humanity itself—wounded, imperfect, but nonetheless able to transformation.
The relentless tempo of the modern life, political extremity and collective anxiousness, change into invisible pressures performing upon the spirit. But regardless of this ambiance of rupture, Bernhard’s work additionally counsel the potential for redemption. Gentle, water, fireplace, and smoke recur all through as symbols of purification and divine presence. Bernhard asks what stays sacred in an age outlined by spectacle, consumption and fragmentation, suggesting that transcendence can nonetheless maybe emerge via the cracks.
“Damaged Vessels” is at the moment on show at Plato Gallery till July eleventh.
