Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975) is renowned for her bold, high-energy paintings that fuse everyday imagery with a raw, expressive style. Driven by an insatiable visual appetite, she approaches painting with fearless spontaneity and a deep trust in its core principles. Her canvases abandon traditional rules—eschewing illusion, perspective, and scale—for a flattened, democratic space where sneakers, tropical fruits, cartoon characters, and cultural icons coexist freely. With a signature blend of blunt immediacy and lyrical rhythm, Bernhardt’s work reads like vivid visual stream-of-consciousness—each piece a fully formed, unfiltered thought.