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  • Comment: If one reliable source, of course independent of Beerhorst, says that he's "internationally renowned" [usually spelt without a ⟨k⟩], then this one source is all you need. If sources are not reliable, or aren't independent of him, or don't say that he's "internationally renowned", then the more that are cited, the worse. See Wikipedia:Citation overkill. Hoary (talk) 22:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Draft:Richard Beerhorst, about the same person, was previously rejected, and then deleted as mere advertising. Luckily for the creator of "Draft:Rick Beerhorst", this differs from "Draft:Richard Beerhorst" -- but both reek of promotionalism. Hoary (talk) 06:18, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Even the short first paragraph demonstrates that this is flagrantly promotional flimflam, equipped with bogus "references". (See my comment on Draft talk:Rick Beerhorst.)
    Please do not think of resubmitting this until you've spent at least a week (i) checking that every reference says what it's presented as saying, and (ii) deleting anything that is not reliably referenced. Sources must be disinterested. Hoary (talk) 06:10, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
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Rick Beerhorst
Beerhorst as Muse
Born
Richard Hendrik Beerhorst

1960
Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Illinois...[1]
Known forPainting, Woodblock Relief Print-making, Sculpture
Notable work
  • 'City as Muse' painting sold in 2014 at the time for $53,000
  • 'Triple Self Portrait' painting sold in 2006 for £15,180[2]
StyleArt Brut, Naïve Art.

Rick Beerhorst born Richard Hendrick Beerhorst in 1960, Grand Rapids, Michigan[1], United States, is an internationally renowned artist.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]

William Deresiewicz Literary Art Critic stated of Beerhorst's work, "You're a...multiplatform artist, in the term one sometimes sees...The point is versatility[15].

Beerhorst's work has been included in book covers for Walter Wangerin Jr. with 'Paul A Novel' in 2001 winning Wangerin a Christian Book Award Gold Medallion.

Stanley Hauerwas with 'Cross-Shattered Christ- Meditations on the Seven Last Words'[16][17]; Alec Hershman 'Permanent and Wonderful Storage' and a painting commissioned of Paul the Apostle for the front cover of Christianity Today[18] 'Rethinking Paul' (August 2007 edition); Shane Claiborne 'Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals'.[19][20][21][22]

Beerhorst is also known for his large-scale paintings and civic installations.[23][24][25][26][27]

Beerhorst's work spans a variety of media including painting, woodblock relief printing and sculpture[28][29].

'City as Muse' a large-scale installation, that won the ArtPrize Competition in 2014 sold for $53,000.

Beerhorst's work has been shown in 28 exhibitions, 4 Museums and Universities[30] and 10 private collections that hold more than 20 of his works each[31] across Northern and Southern Europe through to the United States[32]

Style of Art

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Beerhorst's style references Art Brut, the Naïve Art of American Limners and of early and post Renaissance[33][34][35] paintings with their object symbolisms being pastiches in reference to early Renaissance art.

John Yau Art Critic stated that, "Beerhorst has taken his cues from Byzantine icons, early Renaissance.[36][37]painters such as Giovanni di Paolo, juxtaposed with the Naïve Art of American Limners".[1]

Beerhorst's rural background views are also a reference to early Renaissance[38][39]artists such as Andrea del Verocchio, Leonardo da Vinci and Piero della Francesca.

Symbolisms within Beerhorst's paintings

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The symbolism that features within Beerhorst's paintings include the use of animals such as cats, birds such as Rooks, Doves and Hummingbirds and insects such as butterflies and snails, that cover either one or both of the eyes of his muse's face. Inanimate objects such as books and spools of thread, also feature within this work. "Beerhorst is not just a fan of the iconography of books, but of reading itself"[28].

Beerhorst's use of symbolism, reflects the delicate fragility of youth and all that it embodies.

The religious symbols that adorn his paintings are part of a surrealist universe stemming from his subconscious. Beerhorst's erotic references are a revenge on a puritan adolescence, between Christian taboo and sublimated impulses.

John Yau, Art critic noted Beerhorst's use of symbolism as, "small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent".[1]

John Yau, went on to say, "It is not even that [Beerhorst] decided to commit [his] life to art. It is that [he] embraced [his] culture, made it [his] subject in a non-didactic and celebratory way...Beerhorst depicts adolescent girls who inhabit a world that has distanced itself from mainstream society, its obsession with mass media and pop culture. [His] work is tough and touching.".[1]

John Yau believes that, "In Beerhorst's paintings, girls and young women are often shown reading, but viewers sometimes cannot see their eyes because he obscures them with the reader's book or overlays them with a disembodied hand or a fluttering hummingbird. With the aid of a book, the girls have transported themselves somewhere else; they are absorbed interiorized space, a world that is separate from ours, that we are not privy to, as the hovering hummingbird suggests. If we are unable to see the girl's eyes, we cannot know what any of them are thinking/ seeing. If the eyes are the windows of the soul, then covering them with a flying creature conveys a complexity of feelings. Did the girls close the viewer out? Are they acquiring knowledge about things we don't want them to know?".[1]

John Yau concluded with, "There is something disturbing about Beerhorst's paintings. And part of it is their refusal to be charming. His subjects strike me as remote, unavoidably so. Whoever we are, we are intruders".

Beerhorst's Early Life and Education

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Born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan[40]. Beerhorst mentioned that, "The first piece of art I remember making was a drawing of my mother. I remember it creating kind of a stir in our household because I was very young, maybe five?".[41]

Beerhorst grew up in an evangelical community in the American Midwest and would use art, nature and pop culture as an escape from reality[32][42][43]. Beerhorst was quoted saying, "There's a powerful vibe that comes off of things that are handmade and having those things in your environment where you live"[44][45]

Beerhorst gained a Batchelor of Fine Arts from Calvin College now Calvin University, Michigan and then a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Illinois, where he studied with and was a close colleague of Christopher Brown[46], before leaving Grand Rapids in 1983 to go to New York, in order to immerse himself in the 1980's Art scene, predominated by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Julian Schnable.

Through Michael Love, Beerhorst's former brother-in-law, and Love's connection with Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980's, Basquiat recognized the significance of Beerhorst's work within the contemporary New York art scene.

Yau noted that, "It is not even that [Beerhorst] decided to commit [his] life to art. It is that [he] embraced [his] culture, made it [his] subject in a non-didactic and celebratory way...Beerhorst depicts adolescent girls who inhabit a world that has distanced itself from mainstream society, its obsession with mass media and pop culture. [His] work is tough and touching.".[1]

Beerhorst's preparatory sketches were commented as being "artworks in their own right". "When I am working up an idea for a new painting, I am in a very vulnerable place. I don't like it there, but if I don't go there, there are simply no new paintings". Beerhorst mentions divine appointments, those things [He] makes plans for even as something else shows up that is infinitely more interesting"[47].[48]

Beerhorst, The Here and Now

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As a painter ranked in ArtFacts[49], Beerhorst's work has been represented in 28 exhibitions to date[32], gaining awards and grants including the ArtPrize Urban Space category award with 'Plan B'[50] and his work stands in museums, libraries and collections internationally.

Beerhorst has stated that "I am an artist because I have a deep inner compulsion to make things that are beautiful and kind of enchanting. You know that feeling you have when you see ...a young (or older) man or woman pass by that are just really beautiful and you feel that bit of a swoon? I want to create that fleeting experience for people but I also want to surprise them and maybe even tug the viewer into a place of confusion where they will be forced to reconsider what they have known before and have new thoughts and new ideas".[41]

Beerhorst's work has been in the Primary Art Market for the past 40 years and is now in the Secondary Artprice Art Market phase[51][52]

Exhibitions Featuring Beerhorst's Work

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Year Exhibition Title Organization
2024 'Evoke/ Provoke Group Exhibit'. Victor Gallery[53], Chicago, Illinois, US.
2022 'Artists on the Rise' Group Exhibition. Galerie Ariane C-Y, Paris, France.
2022 'End of Year Stories' Group Exhibition. Consadori Galleria, Milan, Italy.
2020 'Beerhorst Solo Exhibition'. Sobering Galerie, Paris, France.
2019 'A Love Affair with Landshut'. Landshuter Rocklturm, Landshut, Germany.
2017-18 'Coming Home'. Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
2015 'A Wonderful Patched Together Life'. St. Louis Community College, St. Louis, Minnesota, US.
2014 'Beerhorst ArtPrize Winner with 'City As Muse'[54] The Urban Institute Of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
2012 'Adventurous' Group Exhibition, Leeds, England.
2012 'Beerhorst One Person Show' Postem Center Leep Gallery, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
2012 'Beerhorst ArtPrize Winner with 'Plan B'[41] Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
2012 'Adventurous' Group Exhibition, Leeds, England.
2008 'The Doll's House' North Park University, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2007 'Portraits' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2006 'Portraits' Gallery X, Brooklyn, New York, New York, US.
2005 'Beerhorst Exhibition' Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US.
2004 'A Place by the Window' Grover/ Thurston Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US.
2004 'The Essential X' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2003 'Group Exhibition' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2002 'Exhibition' Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US.
2002 'Art of the 20th Century' Ann Nathan Gallery, Amory Show, New York, New York, US.
2002 'Art of Chicago' Ann Nathan Gallery, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2001 'Group Fusion' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2000 'Narrative Portraits' Esther Claypool Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2000 'Small and Mighty II' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
2000 'Obvious Enchantment' Gallery Arcadia, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
1999 'Small and Mighty' Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, US.
1999 'Two Person Exhibition' Esther Claypool Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US.

Beerhorst Featuring in Artist Residencies

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Residency Duration Season
Carter Foster Residency. Two weeks Spring 2019
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Four weeks Spring 2018
Golden Apple Artist Residency. Two weeks Summer 2017

Grants and Awards Beerhorst Received

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Year Grant/ Award
2010 Best Use of Urban Space Award, ArtPrize Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
1997-1998 Pollack/ Krasner Foundation Grant
1995 Creative Artist Grant Arts Foundation of Michigan, US.
1989 'National Endowment for the Arts' Artist Fellowship Grant[32] Michigan Council for the Arts Mini Grant, Michigan, US.

In-Situ Beerhorst Art Collections

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Collection Location
George and Susan Heartwell (Former Mayor of Grand Rapids) Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
The Janet Turner Print Museum Chico, California, US.
Grand Rapids Museum of Art Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
Grand Valley University Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
The Dick and Betsy DeVos Collection Ada, Michigan, US.
California State University California, US.
Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
Warner Cross and Judd Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.
Art Center of Battle Creek Battle Creek, Michigan, US.
Divinity Library, Vanderbilt University[55] Nashville, Tennessee, US.

Beerhorst's Book Covers, Book Illustrations, Publications & Radio Interviews

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Time Publication Publication Edition/ Reference
2019 Alec Hershman: 'Permanent and Wonderful Storage Poems'. Seven Kitchens Press.
2016 Art Collector Magazine. August page 43.
2013 Hyperallergic. October 13.
2013 Yale University Radio Interview with Brainard Carey. November 23.
2010 Shane Claiborne: ‘Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals’. Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US and (English) edition.
2008 An Illustrated Life. How Book, Cincinnati, Ohio, US.
2007 Christianity Today: 'Rethinking Paul'. US and China distribution.
2005 Stanley Hauerwas: 'Cross-Shattered Christ - Meditations on the Seven Last Words'. Baker Publishing Group.
2004 Art in America. October, Essential X.
1997 Simon Sullivan Porges: 'Blessed Art Though Among Women'. Macmillan.
1997 Diepeveen VanLaar: 'Active Sights'. Mayfield Press.
1996 Simon Sullivan Porges: 'Who Do You Say That I Am?'. Macmillan.
1994 Walter Wangerin Jr.: 'Paul A Novel'. Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, US.

Beerhorst's List of Major Works

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(This list is not exhaustive)

Time Title
2024 “Unconditional Love”
2024 “Hummingbird Girl (With Her Book)”
2024 “The Raven”
2023 “Self-Love - Young Woman with Sparrow”
2023 “Venetian Venus”
2022 “A Woman Holding Space”
2021 “Going Inside to Go Outside”
2017 “Triple Self-Portrait”
2017 “Pearl Brushing Her Hair”
2016 “Microscope Girl”
2016 “Triple Self Portrait”
2015 “String Game”
2015 “Tongue Out Green Dress”
2011 “The Double Rose”
2011 “The Reader”
2010 “Bat Girl”
2010 “Jesus Eats With Friends” (Woodblock Relief Print)
2009 "Braided Vision"
2009 "Double Rose Third Hand"
2009 "Hummingbird Girl"
2008 “Braided Vision”
2007 “Butterfly Book”
2007 “In To Her Book”
2006 “Triple Self-Portrait”
2006 “Portrait of Rain”
2005 “A Family Portrait”
2005 “Man Reading”
2005 “Portrait With Red Tulip”
2005 “A Family Portrait”
2004 “Portrait of Rose With A Book”
2005 “A Family Portrait”

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