Rick Beerhorst

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Rick Beerhorst
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Rick Beerhorst is the Patriarch of the Beerhorst Family. Both he and his artist wife Brenda Beerhorst have been full time working artists for many years. Last year they created Plan B, a "Post Peak Everything" eco village on the bank of the Grand River that posed the question, "what will our future look like when we run to the end of cheep fossil fuel" ? Plan B won the Best Use of Urban Space Award from new urbanist expert Jeff Speck. Beerhorst is a narrative figure painter and a recipient of a NEA artist grant and 2 Pollock/Krasner awards. His art is featured in prominent collections around the world. He is also  fronts the indie rock band The Wealthy Orphans and has recorded 2 full length albums on the Soft Butter Records label. The Beerhorst family has been the recent subject of an Etsy.com artist profile film.

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Rick Beerhorst is the Patriarch of the Beerhorst Family. Both he and his artist wife Brenda Beerhorst have been full time working artists for many years. Last year they created Plan B, a "Post Peak Everything" eco village on the bank of the Grand River that posed the question, "what will our future look like when we run to the end of cheep fossil fuel" ? Plan B won the Best Use of Urban Space Award from new urbanist expert Jeff Speck. Beerhorst is a narrative figure painter and a recipient of a NEA artist grant and 2 Pollock/Krasner awards. His art is featured in prominent collections around the world. He is also  fronts the indie rock band The Wealthy Orphans and has recorded 2 full length albums on the Soft Butter Records label. The Beerhorst family has been the recent subject of an Etsy.com artist profile film.

Cultural
Inspiration:

I love old mail order catalogs from the 1940s. I like rockabilly, gypsy punk and sufi indian worship music. I have watched Basquait by Jullian Schnable more than any other film. I keep reading the Bible over and over.
Artistic
Inspiration:

Frida Khalo, Balthus ,Rogier van der Weyden, Gregory Gellespie and Josehp Beuys
Birth Place: Grand Rapids, MI
Current Residence: Grand Rapids, MI
Education: MFA University of IL
Press & Publications: 2008- An Illustrated Life, How Book, Cincinnati, Ohio 2004- Art in America, October, Essential X 1997- Porges, Simon Sullivan: Blessed Art Though Among Women: Macmillan - VanLaar, Diepeveen; Active Sights, MAyfield Press 1996- Porges, Simon Sullivan; Who Do You Say That I Am?; Macmillan
Permanent Collection: Warner, Cross, and Judd LLP Battle Creek Art Center, Battle Creek, MI Gertie Jaquet, Amsterdam, Holland Trish Sweeney, Mandurah, Western Australia Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI Ms Dianna Zarouk, Akron, OH George and Susan Heartwell, Grand Rapids, MI Patricia Smith, Key Biscayne, FL Richard and Elizabeth DeVos, Ada, MI Myra Casis, Chicago Rachel Madden, Nuremberg, Bavaria Marc Hauser, Chicago, IL
Genre: Fine Art
TTP Debut: September 20, 2011

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