BERNARD MINDICH - Arts Westchester



BERNARD MINDICH - Biographical Statement

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Bernard Mindich is a multimedia artist living and working in Goldens Bridge, NY. He began his artistic career in the 1970s as a painter and sculptor. Since the mid 1980s, photography has been his dominant form of expression. Working almost exclusively in color, his imagery has evolved in extended thematic series, sometimes documentary in nature and frequently in an abstract or semi-abstract mode.

His initial passion for photography actually developed from his early abstract wire mesh and acrylic sculptures, which incorporated projected light and theatrical pedestals and backdrops. The nature of the sculpture prompted him to explore photography to capture the always-changing details of color shadows cast as part of the sculptural presentation. This resulted in a mysterious and sensual photographic series entitled Private Screenings, first exhibited, along with his sculpture and paintings, in 1987 in NYC. Subsequent bodies of work have included, among others, series entitled PhotoPoems (semi-abstract composite images presented as visual poems), The Color of Night or NightVisions (an exploration of the night in diverse and exotic parts of the world and in places close to home), Urban Safari (a study of inanimate animals in varied urban settings), Transformations and Mindbreaths (large scale photo based abstractions inspired by poetry), Interior Motives (a photographic examination of the literal, psychological and metaphorical implications inherent in moody interior spaces and the occasional mystery of some human presence (or absence), Artists Anonymous (a study of objects, markings and arrangements, found in the environmental landscape that suggest the creation of works of art, though none may have been intended as such and the creators are unknown) and, most recently, The Women in My Life (an exploration of commercial imagery of women found in the urban environment which, through photographic perspective and composition, including interactions with real people and surrounding objects, which often suggest the existence of an intimate relationship with his chosen subjects) and The World at My Feet (street still life imagery taken from a consistent downward perspective suggesting the abundance of intriguing content and infinite stories that evolve with virtually every step we take) . (Over » )

Mr. Mindich has recently published two photography books (Interior Motives and

Music from Angel Fire and he is currently working on several other book projects.

Since the late 1970’s Mr. Mindich’s work has been exhibited extensively in group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States, including NYC, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, California, Colorado and Oregon . In Westchester, he has exhibited at the Katonah Museum of Art (where he was recently the Featured Artist of the Katonah Museum Artist’s Association), The Blue Door Gallery in Yonkers, The Nardin Galleries formerly in Cross River and Somers, The Northern Westchester Center for the Arts formerly in Mt. Kisco, The Westchester Arts Council and The Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains, The Hiram Halle Memorial Library in Pound Ridge and The Hammond Museum in North Salem. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, including those of Citibank, Pfizer and Wells Fargo.

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