'I Love My Condo' Bernadette Simone

In highly chromatic depictions of the condominium she lives in, surrounded by friends, flowers, music, and trees, Bernadette Simone coalesces her most cherished spaces, feelings, and ways of living into repeated symbols, all rendered in the glow of “forever” (a tense that's very important to her). The radiance of her thickly applied pastels lends these scenes a playful joyousness - days are fair, food is good, friends love us, and shining song and color wash over it all.