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other 2004 exhibits
September 2, through October 2, 2004.
Pacini Lubel Gallery will present the works of artists Beverly Jean McIver and Bennett Bean in September, 2004.
Beverly Jean McIver
ol on canvas
2003
Beverly Jean McIver is the recipient of the 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2002 Creative Capital grant and the 2004 Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. She was born in Greensboro, N.C. and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Arizona State University where she has taught painting and drawing since 1996.
Her work reflects her personal journey through this world - a black woman raised in a poor family. As a child, she fantasized about becoming a clown in order to "escape my black skin, poverty, and the housing project I once called home." Her work embodies this reality and challenges the viewer to understand the world beyond their own experiences.
The paintings themselves are similarly aggressive yet normal. Energetically painted with a bawdy faux-Expressionism, they have a physical robustness that ameliorates the volatile mix of racist presumption and personal strengths that they explore, and this contributes to the somewhat comic, if ultimately triumphal, air of Ms. McIver's work. (Roberta Smith/New York Times Review/October 17, 2003.)
More works by Beverly Jean McIver
Bennett Bean
Bennett Bean has been creating ceramic art since his graduation from Claremont Graduate School in California in 1966. He first achieved national recognition when the Whitney Museum of American Art purchased a piece of his work for their permanent collection in the late 1960's.
The classic Bennett Bean vessel is a lush, decorated combination of very controlled techniques incorporating taping, glazing and hand painting in combination with techniques like hand-throwing on the pottersā wheel and pit firing which involve greater elements of chance.
... Bennett Bean, dares to make beautiful works. They are seductive with visual activity to engage your eye. His sensuous, thrown white earthenware forms are Embellished with gold and transparent glazes, richly colored acrylic paint, and touched by the organic effects of pit-firing. He often slices open his pots, as he unpretentiously calls his work, and combines them in a choreographed dance of formal elements. ( Karen S. Chambers/Ceramics: Art and Perception/No. 29,1997) Both Beverly Jean McIver and Bennett Bean will present their work from September, 2, 2004 through October 2, 2004.
More works by Bennett Bean
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