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Jason B. Bernard [aka Jason Wallis-Bernard]
@jasonbbernard.bsky.social
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Conceptual Artist: www.jasonbbernard.com. Also founding member of industrial / experimental act: skull:axis. Medical Antique fanatic / Writer / Neurodivergent / Amsterdam born
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“The Red I” by Whitfield Lovell (American) – Conté on paper with attached found object / 2021 – Cincinnati Art Museum (Ohio) #WomenInArt #WhitfieldLovell #art #artText #artwork #Lovell #AfricanAmericanArt #CincinnatiArtMuseum #BlueskyArt #AmericanArtist #PortraitofaWoman #BlackAmericanArt #ContéArt
In “The Red I,” American artist Whitfield Lovell merges portraiture and found object to evoke memory and ancestry, a hallmark of his conceptual tableaux that blend drawing, assemblage, and the poetics of history. Beginning in the late 1990s, he developed these stand-alone scenes that are almost ghostly yet grounded and inspired by vintage photographs of unnamed African Americans whose stories were never recorded. His process reanimates these lives, freeing them from prescribed narratives while allowing presence to emerge from silence. A dark-skinned young woman gazes slighyly to our left, her thoughtful eyes avoiding direct contact with us. Lovell renders her in soft black conté lines against a vivid red paper background, her 19th-century attire detailed with high-necked, long sleeves, and three rows of buttons that trace the bodice’s form. A large rose blooms at her chest; her right arm crosses her waist holding a sprig of leaves and a flower. Her hair is swept into an elegant updo while delicate dangle earrings catch light against her cheek. The drawing, measuring nearly four feet tall, rests within a deep black frame lined in darker red. At its lower left edge, a small circular black vase with neck narrow and mouth flared protrudes from the composition, bridging the world of the viewer and the drawn figure through shadow and reflection. The “Reds” series, to which this piece belongs, explores emotional intensity and remembrance through color and ritual object. The artist combines charcoal drawings of individuals with found objects that extend into the viewer’s space. Many feature exquisite, highly finished figures who appear as if emerging organically from the surface. The found vase acts as both vessel and offering like an echo of mourning, devotion, and endurance. Lovell has described his works as “visual poems” that “summon spirits from the past,” inviting us to contemplate how identity, loss, and love persist across generations, even if names are forgotten.
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Nazi “degenerate art” talk, keep making absurdist plays and Dadaist conceptual art folks it’s historically proven to really upset them
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19d
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 25, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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antinoe.prettyfem.me
i genuinely did start work on a short essay on this, arguing for a bdsm framework that would take "consent is sexy" to its conceptual extreme the same way the structural expressionism movement in architecture exposed the inner workings of a building and in so doing elevated function into art
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antinoe.prettyfem.me tina, sex change freedom fighter @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 12d
ye, i find some of the most extreme eroticism in integrating consent into a scene in a way that both:

1) makes it so the sub (and in your case the voyeurs made accomplices) are in control of the flow in the power exchange

2) in a way that makes it moral/emotional exhibitionism, that.. (.cont)
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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À paraître: Conceptual Art and other Essays by Art & Language, 1965-2023, Fonds Mercator, 2025. mercatorfonds.be/fr/product/c...
November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
I’m feeling positive and excited about new projects! I rarely say things like this so it’s a very pleasant experience.

Surprised face.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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girlonthenet.bsky.social
This time last year I published one for the #feet fans among you.

And honestly, fuck this was so hot.

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/cover-m... (it's up for the vote in this month's Patreon poll so if you wanna hear it as audio come to Pat and choose it!)
Cover my feet in your cum | Fulfilling a really fun foot kink
Ever since I found out that some guys were into feet, I have wanted one to come all over mine. Getting into my boyfriend's foot kink...
www.girlonthenet.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
TITLE: Reward
MATERIALS: Lighbox / Molecular Model / Lighting / Perspex

New art project and article coming soon discussing the link between the neurotransmitter: dopamine, ADHD + the consequences of chasing it's "highs".

#dopamine #conceptualart #jasonbbernard #adhd #neurodivergence
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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hellohistoria.bsky.social
#OTD 1966 • Aberfan Disaster 🥀

On Friday the 21st of October 1966, a wave of coal waste slid down the Aberfan Valley, taking the lives of 116 children and 28 adults with it.

#Wales #History
October 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
Hurry and get your tickets for my talk!

"WISH YOU WERE(N'T) HERE"
Execution Postcards and the Brutality of Spectacle

With Jason B Bernard on Sunday the 19th October 2025 at 1:30 pm

@harbottlestores.bsky.social

londonmonthofthedead.com/tickets.html

#londonmonthofthedead #bromptoncemetery
A photo of an angel statue in Brompton Cemetary London.
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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mocart.bsky.social
Young woman stands behind men during anti - Shah demonstration. Tehran, Iran. 1978.
Abbas | Magnum Photos
July 3, 2023 at 8:43 AM
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It really is striking how much they want us to see images of their own brutality. The pretense of being anything but a exercise in violence has all but disappeared.
iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Oct 4
Gestapo posting about their work.
October 4, 2025 at 3:47 PM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
Preliminary cover design for my artbook: "Wish You Were Here: The Brutality of Spectacle".

The book will contain graphic images of execution postcards and poses the question: why were these images made into postcards?

#artbook #postcards #executions #jasonbbernard #conceptualart
September 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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@harbottlestores.bsky.social

Favourite artist of the day: Doris Salcedo. She describes her work as ‘a topology of mourning’; in each of her sculptures, installations and public projects Salcedo bears witness to life that has become the casualty of a political agenda.

#installationart
Untitled Installation for the 8th International Istanbul Biennial, 2003
September 29, 2025 at 11:42 AM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
The best books on Conceptual Art. According to: www.contemporaryartissue.com/conceptual-a... have 4!

#conceptualart #publications #artbooks
September 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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New article on Medium.

medium.com/@info_jasonb...
When the act of forgiveness is the kindest thing, we can do for ourselves.
I have felt the deep resonating anguish of trauma, of feeling that I wasn’t enough, I wasn’t worthy and ultimately a failure. I have had to…
medium.com
September 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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harbottlestores.bsky.social
Would you like to read an experiment in academic publishing, about #c19 medical devices, fashion, and masking? Then please consider buying my zine, Penny Gush, from the @headpress.bsky.social shop:

headpress.com/product/penn...
Penny Gush fanzine No 1
Penny Gush fanzine No 1 — exploring the weird and wonderful aspects of 19th-century history.
headpress.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:21 PM
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beapichel.bsky.social
What does the future of medical and scientific imaging look like?
Join Dr Savannah Dodd, Susan Kett-Smart, Prof Mark Lythgoe, Dr Chimwemwe Phiri, Georgie Wileman & me as we explore ethics, innovation, and inclusion in image-making bit.ly/WPPPanelTalk
📷 Image credit: @georgiewileman.bsky.social
A poster with a read background and a photograph of a woman lying on a white sheet, with her top just under her chest. There are marks on her bade belly, her hands lying on the sides of her hips. On the right top corner it says Picturing Health: Ethics, Experience and the Evolution of Medical Photography. On the left bottom corner it says Free Talk and Discussion Wednesday 1 October. The Wellcome Trust logo is on the left top corner.
September 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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‘You are worthy and deserving of help’: six practical ways to navigate medical misogyny

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
‘You are worthy and deserving of help’: six practical ways to navigate medical misogyny
Two-thirds of Australian women have experienced gender bias or discrimination when seeking healthcare. Here’s how to advocate for yourself if a doctor dismisses your concerns
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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New article on Medium.

medium.com/@info_jasonb...
September 14, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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New article on Medium. medium.com/@info_jasonb...
September 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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harbottlestores.bsky.social
I'll be talking about post-mortems in houses again on 4 November at Barts Pathology Museum. Tickets here:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-good-fir...
'A Good, Firm Table': The History of Post-Mortems in Domestic Spaces
As part of National Pathology Week 2025, this talk discusses autopsies in kitchens, pubs & more in a time before established mortuaries
www.eventbrite.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
jasonbbernard.bsky.social
Now on Medium! Hope you enjoy my first post.

medium.com/@info_jasonb...

#medium #agoraphobia #panic #conceptualart #jasonbbernard #article
September 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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drmatthewsweet.bsky.social
Amazing how such small numbers have been identified as the voice of the nation when, for comparison, 100,000 turned out for trans pride last month in London.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 24
"CROWDS wave flags" according to the Daily Mail caption of this picture
August 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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New Zine on the way!
August 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Favourite artist of the day. Today it's: Serbian artist Marina Abramovic. She has marked the history of art with her intense and moving performances. Like Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci and Chris Burden, she is one of the artists who introduced performance to the world of art.

#conceptualart
August 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM