Edie Beaucage

About

American,   —   Edie Beaucage American (b.Quebec) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2010. Edie has presented solo exhibitions at VOLTA New York, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, CB1 Gallery, Creative Artists Agency (CAA). Group exhibitions include School Of Visual Arts SVA NY and Tiger Strikes Asteroid TSA_PDF NY, Art Toronto Fair; UNTITLED Miami Beach; LAX-Los Angeles Airport; Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles. Edie has been featured in The LA Times, KCRW DNA Radio, Art and Cake, Beautiful/Decay, Artillery, KCET.org, and Whitehot Magazine. Private Collections include; Creative Artists Agency, CAA, Los Angeles, Flockhart-Ford Collection, Los Angeles; Preiser Collection, London and Lord-Patton Collection, Montreal. Edie is represented by Luis De Jesus Los Angeles and Office Space SLC French Canadian writer Yves Theriault exclaimed at meeting me at age fifteen, “nice material!” I did not understand what he meant. I knew he had written Agaguk, a rare Inuit novel, and I wondered how the daughter of a hardware store owner could be of interest to such a writer. Agaguk hunting seals (!) in the vast tundra. Edie selling nails in Montreal? Today, “nice material” is all I see in people I met. My paintings are these encounters. I collect characters, a person’s mood inspires me, a demeanor, or a soft look, humor, imperfections, nose, and posture. And to bring things full circle, the melting permafrost in the tundra is a huge concern I have. I approach painting as an impromptu performance, and my process is uninterrupted and immediate. I apply long, congruous, and sequacious brushstrokes, confident in the short ad-lib articulation of my thoughts about a character through paint application. Often working in thematic suites, I weave an emotional thread across several paintings, mapping out social space’s ambiance and my protagonists’ ever-changing moods as I storyboards my way through night clubs and theaters, galleries, and across exotic, fantastical, and melting landscapes.