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Claudia Bernardi

 
Claudia Bernardi

American 20th-21st century sculpttor, painter, printmaker, installation artist
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1955 – )

Works in fields of art, human rights and social justice. Educator; community and collaborative art projects. From interview in Forbes.com: "In her chapter The Tenacity of Memory / La Tenacidad de la Memoria, in the essay collection, Transforming Terror/ Remembering the Soul of The World, edited by Susan Griffin (U. of California Press, 2011), Bernardi writes about returning to Argentina and running into an old classmate at a bus stop who assumed she had “disappeared.” From Getty ULAN: Claudia Bernardi is an Argentine painter, printmaker, and installation artist who lives in Berkeley. Her work is informed by her participation in the Argentinean Forensic Anthropology Team, which was established to investigate and gather evidence of human rights violations.

2 objects

10 x 10: Ten Women, Ten Prints: a serigraph portfolio

1995
paper on clamshell box
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.8.1-.10
 

Ser mujer es saber resistir (from 10 x 10: Ten Women, Ten Prints, a serigraph portfolio)

1995
silkscreen with 21 colors on paper
Archival Collection of Marion Boulton Stroud and Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mt. Desert Island, Maine. Gift from the Marion Boulton "Kippy" Stroud Foundation
2018.10.8.3