Artist Peter Bustin loves to "paint humans." He sees beauty in all people and he encapsulates that love and admiration through layers of paint like a sculptor forming a figure in clay.
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I came to know Peter and his work through this show. Join me and learn why I broke with my show's tradition of celebrating women artists, to celebrate a male one. :)
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This episode includes a conversation with Peter. Follow him @peterbustinartist on Instagram. To see the images discussed and resources for this episode, please got to beyondthepaint.net.

This episode is a celebration of the founder of the Art Center at the Red Barn, Janice Juliano and resident painter, Katie Fogg--woven through is the power and presence of the Divine Feminine!
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Learn more about the Art Center and its offerings at www.artattheredbarn.com
Follow the work of emerging painter Katie Fogg at www.katiefogg.com and @katiefogg on Instagram. Image Credit: Mary Edelson: Goddess Series (MOMA)
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All the images discussed, from Venus of Willendorf to Madonna and Child to the works by feminist artist Mary Edelson are on my website: beyondthepaint.net.

Contemporary, figurative painter Christiane Lyons distorts a singula viewpoint of the women portraits she paints by creating more than one view of her face and limbs in the same image. She forms her figures through "found images in her searches through social media and fashion photography."
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Visit ww.beyondthepaint.net to see the images discussed and resources used for this episode.
Follow and learn more about Christiane work and process @christianelyons on Instagram and at www.christianelyons.com

Check out the Virtual exhibition, "Feminist Connect," celebrating 42 women artists across diverse disciplines.
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Linke to the exhibition and upcoming Virtual Art Discussion: https://www.les-femmes-folles-feminist-connect.com/
Follow the co-curators Sally Brown @sallery_art and Leslie C. Sotomayor @art_by_lcs on Instagram

The prolific contemporary artist Christine Sloan Stoddard "makes books, films, murals and other imaginings," that speak to her deep interest for the marginalized, people, animals struggling to find their power."
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Explore with me a series of murals she created for a residential community in South Brooklyn. Become immersed into her fantastical landscapes of graphic images and vivid colors.
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Resources for this episode and images discussed are at my website https://beyondthepaint.net
Please learn more about Christine Sloan Stoddard at http://www.worldofchristinestoddard.com
Follow her on Instagram @christine_sloan_stoddard
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Image Credit: Shawn Inglima Photography http://www.shawninglima.com/

Beyond the Paint with Bernadine is adding new monthly episodes centered on a book I am writing. Writing is the vehicle I want to use to bring into my reader, the ways art has transported me and shaped me into the woman I want to be and into the life I want to live. Experiencing art is my spiritual and intellectual practice of feeling and being alive. My hope is for you to be open to the ways art can shape and bring meaning to your life.
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The excerpt I share in this episode is from the chapter, "Before the Women, There Were the Men." It highlights the works of contemporary painter Sean Scully, his "Land Line" paintings and the work "Opulent Ascension" at Venice Bienale (2019) at the Church San Giorgio Maggiore.
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Visit my website www.beyondthepaint.net to see all the images discussed.
Image credit: San Giorgio Maggiore

Painter Alex Bigatti crosses the boundaries between realism and abstraction in her gestural or action paintings. Dive in with me in her boundless joy expressed through vivid colors and broken brushwork. You will also hear from the artist herself, including her insights into the symbolic meanings she explores from her subject onto the canvas.
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Visit Alex at her website: www.alexbigattiart.com
Follow her on Instagram: @alexbigatti_art and @alexgestural
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All the images discussed are highlighted on my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Image credit: "Sunset" @alexbigatti

Leslie C. Sotomayor is an artist who expresses visual narratives of her own story as a Latin American woman. Her research work includes her role as educator, curator alongside an artistic practice of making works of art. She articulates the struggles and challenges of other Latin American women artists, representing their unique commonality; "lived experiences as a Latin American woman and all the fluid and multiple things that my identity means."
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Resources and works discussed can be viewed at my website at www.beyondthepaint.net.
Experience the 2015 exhibition, "Reconciling the Waters,"
https://borrandofronteraserasingborders.wordpress.com/2015/01/14/leslie/
Follow Leslie @art_by_lcs on Instagram

Journey with me through the flat planes, shapes and curvaceous edges bursting with vivid colors in the compositions by contemporary Brazilian artist Ariana Tavares. Works highlighted include the painting, "Monstera," from her Tropical series and includes an insightful conversation with the artist.
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Resources for this podcast episode are listed in my website: www.beyondthepaint.net
Please visit Ariana at www.arianatavares.com and @arianact on Instagram
Image credit: "Monstera"--Ariana Tavares website

Explore textiles in the visual expression through the practice of contemporary artist Jean Rill-Alberto. Her Stitch Meditation series are small, intimate pieces, surfaced textured of geometric and organic shapes and forms. Creating with textiles and paper, the act of stitching became a kind of therapy for the artist, especially during the pandemic. This episode includes a conversation with the artist.
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Visit my website at beyondthepaint.net for list of resources for this episode.
The Red Barn Art Center in Durham, Connecticut is featured as an engaging space to for creativity to flourish. Learn more at www.artattheredbarn.com. Jean's website is www.jeanrill-alberto.com
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