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Sheila Berenson

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  • Community of Residence:  Brookline
  • Email:   skberenson@gmail.com
  • Website:   www.skberenson.com
  • Phone:       913-649-1665
 
  • Artist Biography:  Raised in Nashville into an academic household, I did not pursue art until I began teaching, then searched for community colleges to take art classes in the evenings. My art interest did not go to waste during the day, however, as I constantly rewrote classroom curriculums where I taught in Madison, San Antonio, Austin, Wichita, and Kansas City, wanting desperately to engage and inspire students in reading, science, and English. I then wanted to share ideas with others, so I became involved with national journals and conferences. I also used my art sense to become the founding director of a hands-on children’s museum in Kansas as well as teach as an adjunct at several universities. Seven years ago, I moved to Boston to become involved in the arts full-time and to write/illustrate for children. 
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          Various local teachers have had tremendous impact on my development, including N. Miebach, N.
          Feldman, J. Fullerton, L. Thomas, B. Seigelman, and C. McCarthy.  In addition, I am forever studying works
          by Sze, Bearden, Picasso, Kandinsky, Chagall, and Lawrence. Teaching trips to Southeast Asia, Mexico,
          and Central America exploded my color sense. 
I have been a member of TBZ for approximately four years
          and have two sons and a grandbaby.
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  • Artist Statement:  My desire is to capture the energy in the world around us – the delightful, the inspiring,         the exhausting, the grim. I focus on content, color, movement, and line but also the interaction of each layer with other layers around. I turn to acrylics as my primary painting medium but also rely on pastels,watercolors, charcoal, photography, and inks, along with various papers, fabrics, woods, and wires; a new interest is to incorporate bendable woods. Subject matter often involves the figure, nature, and/or music–either in representational or abstract form. 
 
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  • Title of Artwork:   A Night at the Dance
  • Medium:  Pastel on paper
  • Dimensions:   40”h x 30”w
  • This artwork is NOT for sale
  • Description: ‘A Night at the Dance’ is a pastel of day lilies from a resident’s garden in Aspen. I had crawled in and around and under these flowers and others for an hour, taking one photo after another. I then returned home to redefine the flowers into pastels so their energy could light the air around them. ​​
         
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  • Title of Artwork: Soon 
  • Medium: Acrylic, birch, wire, netting, paper, acrylic
  • Dimensions: 29”h x 28”w
  • This artwork is NOT for sale.
  • Description: Soon is part of a new direction in artwork for me. I refer to such pieces as “sculptural paintings” as I don’t want to completely leave the flat surfaces I’ve relied on for past paintings yet still want to borrow some of the materials – and energy -- I find in the unusual sculptures of today. “Soon” depicts the complex lives many of us live today -- it certainly reflects my past. Various obligations and expectations often keep us from any chance at exploring our own inner needs as we care for the world around us. The woman, with arms raised dramatically, thrills as she realizes she has found a way to step forward, out of a life of constant demands to one that may find time for her, too.
 

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  • OUR TBZ ARTISTS
  • ARTISTS GALLERIES
    • LIORA BLOUWOLFF
    • AURORA KESNER
    • DANIELLE MORGENBESSER
    • LINK RIBNER
    • LEAH ABRAHAMS
    • RICK BANKHEAD
    • JOEL BERENBAUM
    • SHEILA BERENSON
    • MEL BROWN
    • JAMES COHEN
    • MIRIAM ROSALYN DIAMOND
    • ELLEN FOUST
    • LAUREN GARLICK
    • LOUIS GIPPETTI
    • CAROL GLASS
    • DAN KIRSCHNER
    • JUDY KUMMER
    • MISIA LANDAU
    • NAOMI RIBNER
    • SUSAN SCHNEIDER
    • JULIE SEEGER
    • BETSY SHOWSTACK
    • BEVERLY SKY
    • ALLEN M. SPIVACK
    • DAVID STRAUSS
  • CONTACT US