Donna Huddleston: Bernadette presents works on paper and paintings that combine classical portraiture, cinema, theater, and popular culture into intricately detailed scenes of complex worldbuilding and enigmatic narrative. Executed in Caran d'Ache, graphite, acrylic, and oil, the compositions carry the dramatic poise of film stills alongside intense psychological presence — figures who look like actors in character, places that read as set locations, interrupted by spiritual, ceremonial, or supernatural elements. Drawing on Tennessee Williams's note that memory "takes a lot of poetic license," Huddleston's work is never literal, shaped by process, form, medium, and touch. This is her first exhibition in the United States.
