Cindy Bernard

Cindy Bernard lives and works in Los Angeles. Received her Master of Fine Arts in 1985 from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and Bachelor of Arts in 1981 from California State University, Long Beach. She has exhibited extensively at museums and galleries internationally. Since 1998, Bernard has produced the acclaimed experimental musis series sound.,
at various venues, including the Schindler House in West Hollywood. In 2002 Bernard founded SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound) whose mission is to increase the visibility and availability of experimental art and sound practices.

³In my early practice I often found myself moving between a copy stand and a field camera, between photographs that hover in the space between figuration and abstraction and images that address the relationship between cinema, memory and landscape. Concurrent with my visual practice, I was a facilitator and activist for other artists, serving as a board member for
the Foundation for Art Resources and the Coalition for Freedom of Expression as well as founding Matrix-L, an email discussion list on issues of visual culture. In my recent work, and with the founding of SASSAS in 2002, I've reconciled the instigation of social exchange with my visual practice resulting in a series of photographs which document interactions among audience members at events I've organized.²

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