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Description:
Size: 48 x 60
2010 Showings
May 8 - 9, Site 186: Alameda Art Works
1068 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126-3183
May 15 - 16, Site 186: Alameda Art Works
1068 The Alameda, San Jose, CA 95126-3183
About Jessica Beerli
A friend once asked me, “How do you make peace?” You know, from the demons that plague one. I’ll never forget that question. While answers to such a question are of a deeply personal nature, I seek thru portraiture to ask of myself and of the world:
How do you make peace?
My answer to this question, concurrently, is to employ large scale portraiture (4ft. by 5 ft.) with oil on canvas, to express a variety of human emotions. My previous degrees in both Psychology and Art, in addition too, spiritual studies, international travel, as well as, having been a social worker, and an activist for Student’s for a Free Tibet, are deeply personal experiences feeding my current body of work in portraiture. I am presently studying in the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, graduating in the Spring of 2011.
Through these portraits I am attempting to create a space in the viewer and myself where a discussion for the potentiality of peace may take shape, root and thrive. A dialogue made possible by the universally powerful, ancient and deeply symbolic language, of painting.
Contact Jessica Beerli
(954) 224-1961
E-mail: images@jessicabeerli.com
Web site: http://jessicabeerli.com