Beverly Acha
2017 Smelser Vallion Visiting Artist
Born in Miami, FL, and currently based in California, Beverly Acha makes paintings, prints, and drawings that employ a language of abstraction that explores structures of space, time, and perception. Responding to shifts in her physical environment and landscape, Acha uses light, color, and structural forms to capture the ways in which place changes how we see and move through space.
2012 MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University
2009 BA, American Studies and Studio Art, Williams College
Recent Solo Shows:
2018 Warm Form at Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY
2016 Mutualities at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM
Recent Group Shows:
Noonlight at Blackburn 20|20 Gallery
UPROOT! at Smack Mellon
No Regrets at LeRoy Neiman Gallery
Museum Starter Kit at El Museo del Barrio
Image credit: Christy Chan
Artist Talk
Beverly Acha had a Visiting Artist Talk on April 19, 2018. In this talk, Acha focused on her time in residence at the Doel Reed Center for the Arts in Taos, NM in July 2017.
Born in Miami, FL, and currently based in California, Beverly Acha makes paintings, prints, and drawings that employ a language of abstraction that explores structures of space, time, and perception. Responding to shifts in her physical environment and landscape, Acha uses light, color, and structural forms to capture the ways in which place changes how we see and move through space.
Workshop: Experiments with Chance: Hand-Printed Monotypes, led by Beverly Acha
On April 20, 2018, she had a workshop in the Stillwater Center for the Arts. The relationship between chance and choice is always present in art making: accidents can lead artists in a new direction or an unexpected reaction between materials can lead to working in a completely new way. Beginning with the Surrealists, who were interested in taping into the subconscious – that wild space of the nonsensical and unknown – to artists like Marcel Duchamp, Francis Alÿs, John Cage, and Yoko Ono, chance has been used both as a starting point for works of art and a vital art making process in and of itself.
In this workshop, participants learned how to make hand printed monotypes using methods and techniques that embrace printmaking’s fortuitous disposition.