“Bernice Bing: BINGO,” on view at Berry Campbell gallery through October 12, marks a long-overdue moment for an artist whose ferocious paintings rank right up there with the other greats of mid-century American art.
The late Bay Area artist Bernice Bing was 25 years old when she had her first solo show, at San Francisco’s edgy but short-lived Batman Gallery, in 1961. Her abstract paintings were a hit; San Francisco Chronicle critic Alfred Frankenstein said Bing had a “remarkable gift for fluid line,” among other bits of praise. Not bad for a recent MFA grad. “People were somewhat surprised at my work because I hadn’t made a lot of noise at school,” Bing once reflected.
She won a scholarship to the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she studied under Richard Diebenkorn and Saburo Hasegawa, a Japanese artist whose Zen teachings were deeply influential. After one year at CCAC, Bing transferred to the San Francisco Art Institute, where she befriended the artist Joan Brown and earned her BA and MFA. In San Francisco, Bing, known affectionately as Bingo, ran in tight-knit circles among the Beats.
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