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Kate Kelton: Lili Bernard

$1,200

Kate Kelton
Lili Bernard
Acrylic, ink, graphite on wood
14 x 18″

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Lili Bernard is a Cuban-born, Los Angeles-based visual artist and actor who filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby in October 2021, alleging he drugged and assaulted her in Atlantic City in or around August 1990. Bernard had been a vocal presence outside the courthouse of Cosby’s 2018 trial and conviction.

Headdresses and crowns deify Kate Kelton’s subjects. She uplifts the Unsung Sheroes & Heroes, Patriarchy Smashers, Warrior Survivors, Silence Breakers, Philosophers, Truth-Tellers, Whistle Blowers and Thought Giants. She paints portraits cloaked in the garb of statues Ladislav Šaloun sculpted onto the train station that her great-grandfather, Josef Fanta, designed for Prague in 1901 – 1909.
Apotheosis through a reclaimed, reapplied Art Nouveau.