artist statement - Kevin Beers

I don't believe in longwinded manifestos. The paintings can speak for themselves more honestly than anything I could say. I will say that I only paint things for which I have a strong emotional attraction . I am drawn to certain subjects that I return to again and again. I have always been fascinated by cars and trucks. Like many young boys, they were my introduction to drawing. As an adult I returned to that first love, drawn back to them by the anthropormorphic qualities I find in these faded, cast off relics.


EDUCATION:

SUNY New Paltz
Art Students League of New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2000 Exhibitions Gleason Fine Arts
1979-1980 Night Gallery , Woodstock, N.Y.

GROUP SHOWS

2000 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Conn
2000 Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island
2000 Common Ground/The Gallery@NYITC, N.Y.C.
1999 Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Conn
1999 Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island
1998 Lupine Gallery, Monhegan Island
Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, N.Y.
1979 Harbor Gallery Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.
1977 Brooklyn Artists 77, Brooklyn Museum

SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS

Lewis Wick Memorial Scholarship
Arnold Blanch Memorial Award