Kristen Struebing-Beazley

Artist Statement

For me, Eros and Thanatos remain encompassing topics of Art through time and space. From a series of nearly 100 numbered “specimen” lachrymal bowls hand built on a Human Calverium (skull top)  through an ongoing series of erotic Lino cut prints sourced and modified from ancient Greek drinking vessels of the all male symposia, I acknowledge Mortality and drink the wine.  Formative years as a New Orleans artist (a city steeped in blithe death) inform macabre and masquerade elements of my work as well.

Biography

Kristen STRUEBING-BEAZLEY is attracted to memorialization through ancient monuments. She images EROS and THANATOS as a base line subject of the Arts over time , space and numerous cultures in Print and multi-media installation. Some of her erotic prints are signed by an alter ego named Morgana Alta Riserva. STRUEBING-BEAZLEY holds the Master of Fine Arts from Tulane University, New Orleans, 1982, where she taught printmaking for five years. Early work featured passage through a century of life to death through family portrait photo etchings and gum bichromate prints collected by the V&A museum and others.

*  Born Chicago, Raised in Pittsburgh

*  Attended Saturday Art Class at Carnegie Museum (like Andy Warhol) for talented children

*  BA  sociology/history  University of Maryland

*  Donut Dollie,  American Red Cross,  attached to United States 8th Army in Korea

*  Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil

*  Married to Resident in Surgery,  Baltimore

*  BA  (# 2) studio art/art history at the University of Maryland with two young children

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*   Moved to New Orleans as a gallery artist

*   1976 MAT  1982 MFA printmaking at Tulane University

*   Errol Street Studio / printmakers, LONDON  1982-83

*   Five years faculty printmaking at Tulane University

*   Founding member 1984 of THE VESTIGES PROJECT, a thirty year artist/writer collaboration with Jan Gilbert & Debra Howell

*   Board of Directors at Contemporary Arts Center NOLA

*   Mezzo soprano for ten years at the New Orleans Opera Chorus (member American Guild of Musical Artists)

*   Returned to New Orleans numerous times from Boston for installations, street performance as Katrina, exhibitions and Vestiges Projects.

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*    Moved to BOSTON: Victorian School house studio to present

*    Became participant in public/collaborative/ international grant funded projects through an artist alternative “The Space”

*    Joined Boston Printmakers with traveling exhibitions and travel to MEXICO and ICELAND.

*    Worked with Vernita N’Cognita in several Detritus projects

*    Attended numerous ceramic residencies Haystack, the Anderson Ranch, Watershed Center for Ceramics, Maine

*    International printmaking exhibitions continue in Spain, Portugal, France, and England

ADDENDUM

Published Arts Writer:   New Orleans Art Review, Art Dynamo

Boston ( defunct)  Arts Media Boston ( defunct) Helicon Nine,

A Journal of Woman’s Arts and Letters,  the Helicon Nine Press.