Kristen Struebing-Beazley
Kristen Struebing-Beazley
Studio 3 LR Joshua Bates School ART BLOCK
731 Harrison Ave. Boston 02118
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.
CHRONOLOGY
* 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, KOREA
* Peace Corps Volunteer, BRASIL
* Married to Resident in Surgery, Baltimore
* BA ( # 2) studio art/art history University of Maryland
with two young children
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* Moved to NEW ORLEANS gallery artist
* 1976 MAT 1982 MFA printmaking Tulane University
* Errol Street Studio / printmakers LONDON 1982-83
* Five years faculty printmaking Tulane University
* Founding member 1984 of THE VESTIGES PROJECT,
a thirty year artist/writer collaboration with
Jan Gilbert & Debra Howell
* Board of Directors Contemporary Arts Center NOLA
* Mezzo soprano ten years 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, SPAIN,
PORTUGAL, FRANCE, ENGLAND.
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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.
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