Given the level of skilled technique we so often encounter today, it’s not all that unusual to learn that what appeared to be a photograph is actually a painting. The only reason this took until now is that for centuries the masters didn’t have photos to mimic, and […]
Consider this familiar fact: we know that water arranges grains of sand more tightly together, so that when they dry, the sand has become solid, recalling the rock from which it was abraded. Pro sculptors, amateurs on holiday, and even children at play can carve the most remarkable […]
“Three vaccinations and four negative tests later, I still feel as if I am sneaking around like a thief to Home Depot, the studio, going to the river to walk the dogs and increasing my list of Life Birds,” says Bernard, referring to the birder’s count of specifies identified in the wild. “160 birds at this point.”
The artist Paul Vincent Bernard who is as well-known for his work as for his wife Irene Maya Ota’s fabulous sushi served at most of his openings tells us: Who do I love? Let me count the ways. Let me count some of the artists. All of […]
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center announced the winners of their Annual Statewide Competition at the Opening Reception Awards Ceremony Friday, March 7. BDAC Director Emma Dugal stated, “BDAC is bursting at the seams with art. The breadth and depth of talent in this show is impressive.” Awards are as follows: […]
Place is not a thing, it is not even a space, it is an experience. An experience that, through the artist’s hand, can be shared. This is the concept that drives “Spirit of Place,” featuring works by Darryl Erdmann, Mark Knudsen and Paul Vincent Bernard, currently up at […]
The Bountiful/Davis Art Center opened its Annual Statewide Competition last night in their new (but temporary) space at the Davis County Memorial Courthouse in Farmington. The 38th annual competition featured 115 pieces created by 81 different artists. The winners, chosen by juror Mikell Stringham of Mondo Fine Art, […]
Ehren Clark visits the studio of Paul Vincent Bernard to tell the story of this printmaker turned painter.
The natural landscape may be the primary subject for Paul Vincent Bernard and Sherman Bloom’s exhibitions at the Gallery at Library Square, but their abstracted works transcend traditional representations of the genre to investigate essential meanings and structures. Bernard’s series of painted iconic forms, abstracted from geologic elements, […]
“I have ink in my blood.” So says printmaker Paul Vincent Bernard in a recent interview that appeared in Gavin’s Underground — http://community.kutv.com/blogs/games/archive/2008/07/21/3219356.aspx. Bernard’s work is currently on display at Tanner Frames, and his studio was featured in this month’s edition of 15 Bytes. To look at the […]
We caught up with printmaker Paul Vincent Bernard in his Poor Yorick studio a couple days after he returned from Fresno, California with his new floor-model lithography press. He found it on eBay and braved California gas prices to drive it back to Salt Lake because it will […]
Paul Vincent Bernard creates dark layered monolithic landscape forms that crowd the printed page. Gestural edge marks float away and fall from these forms. Utah Artists DirectoryArtist listings in our Utah Artists Directories are open to all visual artists who reside part-time or full-time in the state […]
