Maria C.
Bernhardsson is a colorful artist who lives and paints in Sweden. Most of her
works are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Bernhardsson
travels the world photographing and sketching houses to use as inspiration for
her canvas and paper works. She plays with the colors and shadows of individual
houses in conjunction with the overall feeling of gazing at a collection of
these buildings. She then adds playful details such as flowers and animals to
make the houses feel more like homes.
Even with her
focus on bold colors and combinations, Bernhardsson conveys a level of warmth,
comfort, and familiarity with her artworks. The abstract layering of the
subjects in her paintings creates ambiguity which leads to the nearly universal
familiarity.
Bernhardsson
often paints in strong colors and a lot of layers. She states of her process,
“The colorway is very important to me when I paint. I love to combine as many
colors as possible at the same time. Contrasts, strong colors/bright pastels,
plain/structured, dark/bright in a cubistic, skewed, dreamy, and naive way.”
EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Urban
Ecologies: Cities Are Built for Art”
Artspace Warehouse,
Los Angeles, CA
2022 Affordable Art Fair New York
Partille Castle,
Partille, Sweden
2021 Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, CA
Affordable
Art Fair New York
2020 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
Art Palm Springs, Palm Springs,
CA
Affordable Art Fair New York
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles,
CA
Affordable Art Fair New York
Kunstwarenhaus, Zurich,
Switzerland
2018 Partille Castle, Partille, Sweden
Galleri Puckeln, Stockholm,
Sweden
2017 River City Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden
Konstriket, Sävedalen, Sweden
Nääs fabriker, Tollered, Sweden
2016
Konstriket, Sävedalen, Sweden
2015
Galleri Arken, Gothenburg, Sweden
2014
Nääs fabriker, Tollered, Sweden
Galleri Löfström, Hagfors,
Sweden
Galleri Arken, Gothenburg,
Sweden
Konstriket, Sävedalen, Sweden
The Nordic Council of
Ministers, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Swedish television SVT, Galleri Media,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Konstriket, Sävedalen, Sweden
2012
Kulturhallen, Mölndal, Sweden
Konstriket, Sävedalen, Sweden
2011
Galleri Backlund, Gothenburg, Sweden
2009
Partille Castle, Partille, Sweden
2007
Särö Konstgalleri, Särö, Sweden
Galleri Saltön, Grundsund,
Sweden
