INHERIT

Bea Lamar is a visual artist and professional photographer based in Los Angeles.

She has been part of international exhibits and art fairs, and her work is included in private and public art collections in the United States, and Europe.

“By painting with light and capturing moments with curiosity, I aspire to create strong imagery from delicate and soft subjects. I am inspired by beauty and always working on creating intuitive images that make what’s foreign feel more like home, transporting the viewer to faraway lands through imagery and bridging the gap between cultures.”

ARTIST STATEMENT:

"I set out to go on an adventure every day, a journey to find little treasures. And to capture and collect beauty in all its raw forms, the intimate moments that could never be said, written, explained, or touched.

Once captured, my drive is to share it with the world, as experiencing it is the only way to grasp its depth and meaningfulness.

Observing, emerging myself, and allowing convergence with my subjects has always been my process whether using a pencil, a brush, or a camera. And surely being a photographer first has allowed me to be more spontaneous in my work, more patient and forgiving as well.

It is a cliché, a real old one, I want make the world a better place but it has been my motto, and the reason I chose this career."

MOST RECENT & UPCOMING:

DNA: November 8th, 2011- January 20th,2012 USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery

Soft Machine: Caporale/Bleicher Gallery October 7th, 2011. This exhibition will travel across universities until 2013.

Rise Up: Integrated Media at the Centre for Performance Research, May 25th-28th 2011 Brooklyn, NY

Solo Show: Art SensuElle Part of the MOPLA andVenice Art Crawl.Nikki’s Venice Beach; 72 Market St, Opens April 21st, 2011 Venice, CA.

Solo Show: Absolute Fantasie.Papillion Institute of Art. Dec.10th-28th, 2010 Los Angeles, CA

Art Traffic at the Village at Ed Gould Plaza. Dec.7th- Jan.20th, 2011. Los Angeles, CA.

City of West Hollywood 25th anniversary. Curator Emeritus at LACMA Howard N. Fox. Nov.4th-30th, 2010 West Hollywood, CA

McDonald/Wright Permanent Collection. La Mer Photo Series at the LAGLC Main Building. 2011. Los Angeles, CA