Brigid Berlin

Good Knot, Pregnant Man, Well Hung, Misery, all works needlepoint, fabric with cushion, 12 1 /2 x 15 1 /2 x 4 inches, 2008

text by VINCENT FREMONT 

 

Brigid berlin has always been obsessed with current events, especially the headlines of the day. In the late ’60s and early ’70s she took Polaroids of the front pages of The New York Post and The Daily News which featured major events like the Sharon Tate murders, J. Edgar Hoover’s death, and American astronauts landing on the moon. Then again, news and newspapers are in Brigid’s blood — her father, Richard E. Berlin, ran the Hearst Publishing empire, a job handed to him by the legendary William Randolph Hearst himself.

Good Knot, Pregnant Man, Well Hung, Misery, all works needlepoint, fabric with cushion, 12 1 /2 x 15 1 /2 x 4…