Untitled by John Beerman

Artist Bio: The luminous landscape painter John Beerman is a master of the rural American sublime. Retaining aspects from the Hudson River School and in fact drawing inspiration from their successors, the Luminists Beerman has always been drawn to the inherent power of poetic radiance in the American landscape. Using methods honed from decades of observation, he articulates the subtleties of a scene in hues and tones, which can only be recorded by an artistic acumen of the highest order. John’s career has taken his plein air aspirations from the Hudson Valley to Texas, New Mexico and his native North Carolina, ever seeking to preserve in oil his tribute to light. John Beerman is a painter whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Beerman has received numerous awards and fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award and the Yaddo Artist Colony Fellowship. His work is represented in many museums including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. He has completed several public commissions including a mural in the Craftsteak restaurant at the MGM Grand, Las Vegas and recently an eighty-five foot mural in the I.M. Pei designed Milstein Family Heart Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. John Beerman was born in 1958 in Greensboro, NC and currently lives in Durham, North Carolina, and is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City.