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Artist Statement:
Many of my recent paintings
are inspired by the desert, my
collection of the found metal
objects and emotional
responses to the events
happening here and at distant
places. These three subjects
do not have much in common,
however all of them are part
of my life and as such appear
on the paintings.
Sometimes the distinction
between desert plants and my
metal pieces is not clear, and
the abstracted landscape
contains collection of
unrecognizable shapes. They
are meditations on the desert
and human urge to collect,
comments on place and time.
Others, in which intense
shapes almost scream are
emotional responses to the
recent natural disasters and
the tensions between the
nations and cultures resulting
in wars and acts of terror.
Paintings in yet another group
show dreamlike peaceful
landscapes, those I wish would
be reachable to everybody at
all the times.
I go back and forth between
figuration and abstraction,
trying to capture the feelings
associated with specific
locations or sometimes
transforming the landscape
into an almost non-descriptive
one. Many of my works are
about longing, or dreams. Some
of the works have multiple
layers of paint, the newer
ones partially obscuring the
older, symbolizing memory and
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Artist Exhibitions:
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2011 Rancho Linda Vista
Gallery, Oracle, AZ, Books and
Paintings
2010 Joel D. Valdez Main
Library, Tucson, AZ, Artist's
Books
2009 PII Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA, Taming the
landscapes, Paintings and
Books
2006 Pima Community College
Library, Artist’s Books
2000 Pokaz Gallery, Warsaw,
Poland, Too Far Away…, ...
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Artist Reviews:
M. Regan, "Darkness and
Magic", Tucson Weekly, August
16-22, 2007
M. Regan, "True Characters,
Obsidian displays works with
the theme: 'Persona'", Tucson
Weekly,
July 6, 2006
M. Regan, “Found Art“, Tucson
Weekly, August 11, 2005
C. Imperatore, “Beata Wehr:
Telling Time”, in Ampersand,
Vol.22, No. 3, Spring 2005
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Collections:
ARTIST'S BOOKS IN PUBLIC
COLLECTIONS
Athenaeum, La Jolla, CA
Atlanta College of Art,
Artists’ Book Collection,
Atlanta, GA
Biblioteca Alexandrina,
Alexandria, Egypt
Bokartas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Book Arts Museum, Łódz, Poland
Center for Creative
Photography, Rare Books,
University of Arizona, Tucson,
AZ
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
Cleveland Art...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Beata Wehr Biography:
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100
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Female
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| Status |
Married
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| Education |
Masters of Fine Arts |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Encaustic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Contemporary Art - (Now)
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| Your Personal Biography |
Beata Wehr was born in Warsaw, Poland, and came to the United States in 1985. She lives in Tucson, Arizona traveling back to Europe every year. She graduated from the Warsaw University in Poland with an M.A. degree in art history and from the University of Arizona with M.F.A. in painting and combined media. She creates one-of-a-kind mixed media books, prints limited editions of books and paints, examining in her work the ideas of home, time, transience and multicultural experiences. Her books were shown in North America, Europe, Africa and Australia and are included in over 30 public collections in the US and abroad. Beata is also an educator teaching classes at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, Tucson Museum of Art, as well as workshops to adults and children. |
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