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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.
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