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Full Name

Beka Brayer

Artist Bio

Artist Biography

Beka Brayer was born in California but moved to Hawaii when she was three months old. She was raised on the Island of Oahu, where she stayed until she finished her higher education at the University of Hawaii with a degree in Criminal Law. Shortly after she graduated, she began flying internationally for Continental Airlines, a career she pursued for 10 years until she married and began a family. She eventually returned to her husbands hometown, Burlingame CA, to raise her children and began to pursue her passion for art.

Art has always been an integral part of her life! Though she has had no formal education or training, she has always believed that to be an artist, one must choose to live a life based and driven by the artistic ideal. Her way of life as an artist has truly been passed down through generations of artistic genes.

She is an emerging artist that is fairly new on the scene. She had her first opportunity to show her work at Sobi Gallery in Burlingame CA, and has since, shown at AvenueArt Gallery in San Mateo, City Art Gallery in San Francisco, Wonderland SF in San Francisco, 333 Studio’s in Sausalito, Sausalito Art Festival, Flax and ArtSpan Open Studio’s. She has contributed works for fund raising benefits to: The American Cancer Society- Mask Project, Charles Armstrong School for Dyslexia, the wild life clean up efforts resulting from the BP oil spill, ArtSpan and Art for Aids Benefit. Before immersing herself in her artistry full time, she owned and operated a children’s art program called Wee Willie Wenke’s, for four years.

Her hope is to free the thinker from cultural constraints and expose them to the underlying beauty found just below the surface where true creativity lies. She chooses to embrace the beauty in imperfection that is so often lost or overlooked in today’s society.

“ It is not so much what one looks at, as what one sees when one is looking.”

Artist Statement

Artist Statement

My goal as a mixed media assemblage artist is to breathe new life into intriguing old and reclaimed objects. I find that form, movement and the natural aging process caused by time and the elements inspire me. I collect those things that speak to me without any preconceive judgments. Its new life takes place later, and the image it takes is as new to me as it is to you.

My pieces often lean toward and blossom from the beauty found in imperfection. I recognize potential and beauty in the lines, form, texture and color found in discarded objects. Channeling through my art, I hope to speak to the imagination without using a single word.

Inanimate objects live and have lived just as we have. I believe that anyone or anything that has been lost, welcomes the possibility of being found. I am a finder.

History

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