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① Artwork:
Circuito (verde) [Circuit (green)]
Motifs related to time, movement, landscape, and the body appear throughout these works through forms that resemble an hourglass, an infinity symbol, musical notations, and flowers. The shapes in these works mimic each other the longer they're viewed: a flower becomes a pinwheel, while a circle is a sun, an eye, or a spot on a butterfly. These repeating symbols become playful measures of time, space, and meaning due to shifting relationships in scale, color, and repetition between different artworks.
Beverly Acha makes paintings, drawings, and prints that capture the intangible, sensorial, and psychological experiences of color and repetition. Often working in series, Acha’s artworks build a distinct visual language referencing architecture, diagrams, and landscape to expose perceptual differences within these expected systems.
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③ Artist:
Beverly Acha makes paintings, drawings, and prints that capture the intangible, sensorial, and psychological experiences of color and repetition. Often working in series, Acha’s artworks build a distinct visual language and logic that respond to the environment in which she works. By referencing architecture, diagrams, and landscape, she exposes the perceptual differences within these expected systems, such as between knowing and seeing, experience and memory, or real and imagined.
Beverly Acha was born in 1987 in Miami, FL, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT (2012) and a BA from Williams College in Williamstown, MA (2009).
She has mounted solo exhibitions at Emerson Dorsch in Miami, FL (2023); Lighthouse Works in Fishers Island, NY (2021); the CUE Art Foundation in New York City, NY (2018); Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY (2018); and the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM (2016).
Acha’s work has also been featured in group exhibitions such as 11 Women of Spirit, Part 6 at Zürcher Gallery in New York City, NY (2022); Faraway Nearby at North Loop in Williamstown, MA (2022); The Printer’s Proof at the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, NM (2022); Intertwined at 1969 Gallery in New York City, NY (2021); our constellations: astral embraces and tactual consciousness at Emerson Dorsch in Miami, FL (2021); and XX at LatchKey Gallery in New York City, NY (2021).
Acha has participated in multiple artist residencies, including the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2021), MacDowell (2019), Fountainhead (2020), Lighthouse Works (2017), Wassaic Project (2017), and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program (2016).
She has received awards such as the Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award (2018) and the Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant to Brazil (2011).
Acha’s work has been featured in publications like New American Paintings, Diacritics, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.
