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Brad Bealmear
Website: bradbealmearart.com Instagram: @bradbealmear Email: bradbealmear@gmail.com
About
Born 1953, raised in Portales NM. Attended Brooks Institute of Photography, Santa Barbara CA 1974-76. Self-employed advertising photographer in NYC and Santa Fe 1978-2014. In 2014 I began teaching myself to paint and moved into abstracts. Included in “Axle Indoors at Peters Projects” Santa Fe 2015, “Outrage” - City of Mud Gallery, Santa Fe 2018 and solo pop-up “The Reckoning” - FOMA Gallery Santa Fe 2019. Currently living and working in Santa Fe.
Artist Statement
These days, pure abstracts make as much sense to me as anything. I’ve stopped photographing because everyone is a photographer. Teaching myself to paint (with a little help from artist friends) I’ve found pure abstracts to be the works I hang and keep on my own walls. Recently I shredded and landfilled several hundred “learning works.” Now I continue in the Abstract Expressionist vein and enjoy it very much.
Untitled 3
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 in. 2022 $1,250 Santa Fe, NM
