Date: Sunday, October 20
Address: Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63118
Media: Painting, Photography, Social Practice / Community Art or Engagement
Studio Features: ADA Accessible, Child-Friendly, Restroom, Refreshments, Work For Sale
Sarah R.S. Bernhardt, Manna 15, 2019. Digital photograph, Courtesy of the artist. 
Sarah R.S. Bernhardt, Manna 27, 2019. Digital photograph, Courtesy of the artist. 
Sarah R.S. Bernhardt, Manna 35, 2019. Digital photograph, Courtesy of the artist. 
Sarah R.S. Bernhardt, Manna 42, 2019. Digital photograph, Courtesy of the artist. 
Sarah R.S. Bernhardt, Manna 56, 2019. Digital photograph, Courtesy of the artist. My work explores the layers of community and neighborhood redevelopment through the lenses of history, architecture, movement, and body. Particularly, I investigate the negotiation of individual’s within larger community and institutional frameworks through the use of self portraiture and community based projects. My work is multi-media, primarily video and photography along with painting, installation, and works on paper. Most recently I have been exploring the issues of exhaustion and rest in the context of doing community and justice based work, and looking at the practice of art and the production of beauty as both complicated and problematic, but also vital spaces of respite and restoration.
