About
Bekka grew up as the child of two teachers who immersed her in art, literature, mythology, and history. Growing up, her family moved many times around the country including Utah, California, Vermont, and even spent a year living in Jerusalem before finally settling in the Boston area. She coped with this transient upbringing by escaping into daydreams and fantasy, and built a sense of home in her mind that she took wherever she went. Moving frequently was a big influence on her perspective– it made her (for better or worse) always the outside observer and allowed her to always make connections in her mind between very different places, things, experiences that she collected along the way.In her work, she creates magical realist landscapes full of symbolism and suggestions of narrative and commentary on the world around her. She seeks to call attention to what is right in front of all of us with imagined scenes that allow the viewer to become the outside observer. Much of her work is about our changing environment, and our place in the world. She has a BA from Brandeis University in Painting with a minor in Creative Writing and an MFA in Cinema-Television Production from the University of Southern California. She currently lives in Medford MA, and has a studio at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, MA. She currently works at Massachusetts College of Art & Design.
Artist StatementI start by sitting here, inside my skin, in the present moment, in this world. What happened here before I existed here, and what will happen after? I take fragments of observations, memories, day dreams, anxieties of the future. Collect, rearrange, overlay.
There is so little time, yet so much of it too. I want to hold onto this present moment, as transient as it is. Celebrate the beauty of everything that cannot be separated from the fear that all things pass, all things come to an end. Even as I try to paint this, the world shifts under my feet, disquieting clouds approach, a moment passes and a new one arrives. But does it matter in a spinning, cold universe filled with 200 billion trillion burning stars? |
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Contact me with any questions or for my list of available artwork: bekka [at] bekkateerlink.com
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