Felix Bernstein

"Bernstein's eye-popping, loosely-hinged videos are based in performance, but equally concerned with formal framing and editing structures, not to mention bouncy musical numbers. Overflowing with an energy and braininess that is way too smart for online viewing, Bernstein's work addresses gay themes and the media landscape in a way that combines big laughs with real sentiments and deep resonances." -Andrew Lampert (filmmaker) 

"Airing significant events in his private life in a manner that few before him had, artist Felix Bernstein came out of the closet at the age of fifteen in a rather spectacular fashion when, in 2008, he posted a 6-minute video on YouTube in which he smeared red lipstick and thick white cake make-up... reaching out to the "world wide web, peoples of the internet, of FaceBook, of YouTube" in a monologue indebted to the recent drag and assemblage drag and assemblage videos of Trecartin as it is to the "woman's film" of the 1940's and 1950's." --Bradford Nordeen