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Janaury Issue 2008
Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, Features Works by Brenda Behr
The
Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, NC, will present the exhibit
Highway 13 Revisited, featuring works by Brenda Behr, on
view in the Commons Gallery from Jan. 25 through Mar. 1, 2008.
Painted mostly en plein air (on location), Behr's Highway 13 oil paintings reflect the spontaneity with which they were painted. On a sunny day with the light constantly changing, the artist's challenge is to paint fast and ala prima (first stroke), in order to capture the light on her subject(s).
Behr invites you to travel with her on a sentimental journey of her paintings of scenes that extend on US Route 13 from Newton Grove, NC to Greenville, NC. She remembers being a young artist, on trips home to North Carolina thinking, 'I'd love someday to capture [in paint] the laundry I see hanging on the lines in this countryside." In June 2003, Behr's personal journey brought her back to those clotheslines and to a mother who's failing health necessitated her daughter's move home.
Growing up in a military family, Behr developed her love for being "on the road". After extensive travel, her family arrived in Goldsboro, NC, in the early 60's. She attended college at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA, where she majored in Communication Arts and Design. She then followed a career as a graphic designer and art director in Minneapolis, MN. In the 80's, she earned her MFA from Syracuse University in New York. After thirty years in Minneapolis, Behr moved home to Goldsboro, where she has since embarked on her fine art career.
Also a watercolorist, Behr serves on the board
of the Watercolor Society of North Carolina. Her paintings are
in private collections across the United States, in France and
Japan, and in corporate collections that include the University
of North Carolina, Captive-Aire Systems, New Century Bank, Parker
Poe, and First South Bank.
The Greenville Museum of Art focuses on North Carolina Artisans
and houses one of the largest Jug town pottery collections in
the country. The American Association of Museums accredits it.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 252/758-1946 or visit (www.gmoa.org).
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