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“The best place to bleed is onto canvas.” Caron Bernstein

Caron Bernstein was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. She majored in painting while studying at the School of the Arts in Johannesburg. As a young girl, music and painting were her greatest passions, but at 14 years of age, Caron’s creative aspirations were sidetracked when she was awarded a modeling contract with Ford Models. For the next decade, Caron’s modeling contracts allowed her to move in the high-profile worlds of fashion, film, and music - reigniting her musical passions.

At 23, Caron dropped modeling and focused exclusively on music, signing three record deals with major labels by the time she was 26. The characters she met in the punk-rock/pop-culture landscape she inhabited would eventually serve as a backdrop for many of her paintings. But it was the next three years that would come to shape Caron’s humorously sardonic take on life and the subjects of her paintings for they were to hold the great tragedies of her life. She was raped at 27. At 28 her younger brother committed suicide. And at 29 Caron married German rock star Richard Kruspe of Rammstein.

To cope with these tragedies Caron began to express herself through her painting, focusing on portraits that attempt to capture the darker aspects of the subject’s character, while putting on display her own sense of the comical nature of tragedy. It is a style she has described as ‘surrealism combined with anime’. It is this sense of the comical in the heart of tragedy that allowed Caron to survive these dark times, and it is this same sensibility that continues to drive her to seek out and distill through painting her unique form of expression. Caron continues to live and paint in New York City, her great love, second only to the love of her dog, Siouxsie.

Want to join Caron's mailing list for NYC's hottest nightlife events? Email caronBernstein@aol.com and she'll send you emails about everything VIP and fabulash. You'll learn everything you need to know about her by being on her mailing list. As IF!

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luhann, nyc, march 2001 | photo: headstrong pictures

Wednesday night, the first of August - from, 6 p.m. – 11 pm @ World Culture Open Center - 19 West 26th Street.A portion of proceeds from this show will benefit my dear friend (and wonderful photographer) Layla Love’s Mother, suffering from Multiple Sclerosis, so if you decide to purchase a piece of art – it will be a tax write off.

Oxo Caron, Donna Meté and In the Deep Productions, Inc. present... “Representing Woman – Unbreakable Surrealism,”

Wednesday, August 1st: Women in the Arts (6 p.m. – 11 p.m.) @ World Culture Open Center 19 West 26th Street Fifth Floor New York, NY 10001 212 679 2055 Featured Artists: Caron Bernstein Allison Kramer Layla Love Short film screenings by: Cara Caddoo - Screened at Tribeca and Sundance Becky Reagan - Screened at Berlin Film Festival and Cannes Kortney Ryan Ziegler - Screened at Frameline and Smith

This multifaceted exhibit, “Representing Woman – Unbreakable Surrealism,” will blow you away with magical and shocking works of art. All events are sponsored by WOW: Women on Women Television, an exciting new media revolution created and championed by Donna Meté, launching in August.

World Culture Open Center is a not-for-profit organization committed to changing prevailing global attitudes of fear and ignorance of other cultures to an environment in which all peoples share, respect, enjoy, and value cultural diversity, and in which each develops the lifelong respect for other cultures – all critical to easing racial, religious, and national tensions, as well as preventing conflicts.

sponsorships and other inquiries: Donna Meté & Layla Love

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