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Dicks of Death

By (author) Judith Bernstein

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""For over five decades, my most powerful and intense relationship has been with my work. As a graduate student at Yale in the â€˜60s, I began to use the phallus as a metaphor for feminism and male posturing. At the time, Yale was an all-male undergraduate program. I became fascinated with explicit graffiti that I discovered in menâ€™s bathrooms, finding inspiration in raw humour and unedited scrawls. Aggression and humour are strongly connected in my work. Graffiti influences can be traced throughout my entire body of work. I confront war with very graphic, in-your-face words and images. Stuffed phalluses, blood and semen juxtapose national imagery and the US flag. Itâ€™s funny â€“ but itâ€™s dead serious!Â Thereâ€™s a gritty and visceral quality to these political drawings. Â Beyond these themes, my work delves into the multiple layers of the human psyche. My art confronts the viewer with the urgency and complexity of human relationships - issues that perpetually arise and tension that resonate from our origins to today. "" -Judith Bernstein, New York, 2016.