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Donna Bernstein

Modern paintings and sculptures. Horses in contemporary abstracts, bold and unique. Landscapes, expressionist abstracts. Originals and prints.

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Sunset, Painting, 60" x 36", $4,800.00

Night Oil, Painting, 60" x 48", $4,200.00

Marengo, Mixed Media, 72" x 60", $7,600.00

Urban Mustang, Mixed Media, 60" x 72", $7,600.00

I Love Blue, Painting, 36" x 48", $2,400.00

Ghost, Painting, 40" x 30", $1,800.00

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Artist Name:
Donna Bernstein
Location:
New York

Statement:
Watching horses has always been as satisfying to me as drawing them. Their musculature and shape, what maintains balance for them as they move, whether slowly grazing across a field or spontaneously bucking on a spring morning. I think I digitize images in my brain somehow, and later I pull out the drawing pads and start to work. Much of this work is minimal, in the form of energetic impressions, in living color. Often monochromatic; suggestive or interpretive, I am profoundly, energetically connected to horses: my muse, my artistic language. Images distilled from my visual memory are imbued with my own distinct blend of form and abstract stylization. I use vibrant colors and dynamic shapes to tell my story. In clay and sculpture the three-dimensional palette is a natural one for me; I feel I express a clarity not only through the complex equine anatomy, but about their highly sophisticated, emotive elements as well. I try to refrain from being labeled an "equestrian" artist, however, because my art of expressing this equine form has always been more urbane, more dynamic, formless and full of the vivid colors and stylistic abstractions of modern art. This has led me to experiment in the completely abstract realm, often large scale, as a personal journey into pure expressionist color and form. Horizontal and vertical horizons; the sublime movement inherent in color; and the endless landscape that largely becomes self-portraiture.
Biography:
Donna Bernstein is a native New Yorker and natural artist. When in high school, she held her first one-woman show in the lobby of a local theatre. She arranged it with the manager directly, hung the art, and sold three pieces. Her lust for art was born. She studied privately during the summers with artist Robert Dash in the art colony town of Nyack, New York; expanded her art studio and art history studies in college, worked in advertising, graphics and real estate, always continuing to draw and paint from life and her surroundings. This was supplemented with studies in Japanese ink work and brush techniques. After moving out west in 1998, she ramped up her art career and began marketing throughout the country, expanding her style and techniques, including working in clay and sculpture just eight years ago. After many years of studying the equine form, working in clay was second nature to her; a piece she designed for the National Ability Center of Park City, Utah is in its permanent collection, and another piece has been chosen to grace the desk of the governor of the great state of Idaho. Today she is drawn to abstract and contemporary expressions, her own style combining brilliant, vivid colors, dynamic forms, suggestive gestures and timeless subjects. Whether using a combination of brushes, breyers, plaster knives or her own two hands, her style is unique, creative and modern. "MOST RECENTLY, DONNA HAS BEEN HONORED WITH THE PLACEMENT OF HER CONTEMPORARY EQUINE SCULPTURE, "GOSLING", IN THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AT THE STATEHOUSE IN BOISE, IDAHO. The piece sits handsomely on the Governor's desk."

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