Bernice Bing: BINGO

Excerpt from the exhibition press release by Berry Campbell

Bernice Bing: BINGO
September 12 – October 12, 2024
Berry Campbell, 524 West 26th Street, New York

Berry Campbell is proud to present the first New York solo exhibition of Bernice Bing (1936 – 1998), a foundational figure among the Bay Area Abstract Expressionists. While she was largely underrecognized during her lifetime, Bing’s importance has recently been acknowledged on the West Coast through several museum exhibitions. As the exclusive representatives of Bing’s estate, Berry Campbell mounts a survey of work created between 1961 and 1996, bringing together seminal large-scale paintings and works on paper, many which have not been seen for decades. The exhibition is accompanied by a 72-page fully illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by the renowned critic and poet John Yau and a remembrance by Flo Oy Wong, cofounder of the Asian American Women Artists Association.

As an independent-minded, queer, Chinese American woman artist, Bing, affectionally known as Bingo, fell outside the norms of the art world of her time.

Bernice Bing: BINGO is on view at Berry Campbell from September 12 through October 12, 2024, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 12, 2024, from 6 to 8 p.m.

On the occasion of the exhibition, Berry Campbell will host a special screening of The Worlds of Bernice Bing (2013), on Saturday, September 28, 2024, 4 pm. This documentary, created by award-winning queer immigrant Asian filmmaker, Madeleine Lim, explores the life, activism, and art of Bernice Bing.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. or by request.

Read the full press release: Bernice Bing: BINGO