Join BRAHM for a conversation between artist John Beerman and author and journalist Liza Roberts. Discussing his painting practice and his works currently on view at the museum, this program will illuminate the artist's meditative painting process and his exacting approach to depicting landscapes. An exhibition of Beerman's work, Imminent Perils: To Wonder at Trifles in the Paintings of John Beerman is currently on view at the museum through July 31st, and the conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the artist in the gallery.
John Beerman is a landscape painter and North Carolina native and current Hillsborough resident whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. John received his degree from Rhode Island School of Design, and he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His 35-year career has garnered recognition at the highest levels of fine art. He has received several awards and fellowships and his work is in the collection of numerous museums across the country. Beerman’s paintings are uncommonly contemporary in their glimpses of natural and built environments. He carefully frames the landscape, illuminating its beauty without erasing the persistent trespass of human development. In these honest representations of precarious landscapes, Beerman quietly captures the anxiety and the awe of experiencing Nature’s beauty in the 21st-century.
Liza Roberts was the founding editor of WALTER magazine, and loves to tell the stories of creative people. She is the author of “The Art of the State,” a book about the art of North Carolina to be published by UNC Press in the fall of 2022.