Wednesday
Caron Bernstein And Her Disturbing Paintings
 The NY Post reported that Caron Bernstein opened her one woman show at the 1st Gallery in Chelsea. The show was described as 'disturbing' because her paintings documented such things as her rape by an ex boyfriend, the suicide of her brother and so on.Caron is a South African model and singer, born in Johannesburg August 16 1970. She majored in Painting at the Johnnesburg School of Arts. She started to express tragedies that had happened in her life in her paintings. Caron Bernstein describes it on MySpace. In her own words: "To cope with these tragedies Caron began to express herself through her painting, focusing on portraits that attempt to capture the darker aspects of the subject’s character, while putting on display her own sense of the comical nature of tragedy. Labels: Caron Bernstein |
