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Bekka Teerlink

@bekkateerlink.bsky.social

I paint magical realist paintings built from pieces of the broken world around me • Somerville/Medford, MA. Solo show at Aplomb Gallery, Dover NH, through February 28th. www.bekkateerlink.com

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Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ “There Will Always Be Rainbows,” 2025 Acrylic on Canvas, 56x42 inches My latest painting. I think this is done, maybe. It’s about trying to find some hope and happiness in the midst of an bleak and oppressive situation.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · last yr.

I ate half a pizza, drank half a bottle of wine, and watched concerts by Devotchka, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Bauhaus. Totally forgot about the world for a bit.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · last yr.

I am struggling with the world today. I need a good painting session to loosen the knot of anxiety that’s in my chest.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

How to write an artist statement: 1. Procrastinate until just before a deadline. 2. Make an attempt, but it’s all just nonsensical letters and words on a screen. 3. Conjure a headache to make an excuse to give up on the deadline. 4. Go paint instead because it’s the only language that matters.

Guggenheim Collection @guggenheim.bsky.social · 2y ago

Statue of Liberty Covered in Hamburgers by Marta Minujín, 1979 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137655

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Guggenheim UBS MAP Purchase Fund, 2014

© Marta Minujín

Danielle Festa @theaplombproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

Open today until 3:30! #dovernh

Danielle Festa@theaplombproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come see “Among the Stars Within” a solo show by @bekkateerlink.bsky.social book an appointment at aplombgallery.com/among-the-st... #newenglandart #portraitgallery

Danielle Festa @theaplombproject.bsky.social · 2y ago

Come see “Among the Stars Within” a solo show by @bekkateerlink.bsky.social book an appointment at aplombgallery.com/among-the-st... #newenglandart #portraitgallery

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Should we steal Follow Friday from old Twitter? I’ve added new artists to my New England Artist stater pack. Follow & share! And let me know who else to add. go.bsky.app/PUkk7fc

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Michael Rose @michaelrosefineart.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every Friday I produce a free listing of art events, jobs, residencies, and other opportunities throughout New England. My latest is out now! Read and subscribe: newenglandartnews.substack.com/p/new-englan... #art #newengland #callforart #artjobs

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s not cheating, it’s just a beginning point. This composition will get rearranged several times in the course of becoming a painting. Once I see it bigger, that’s when I can make real decisions.

Daniel M. Granitto @danielmgranitto.bsky.social · 2y ago

New painting! 30 x 24 inches Oil on canvas 2024 AVAILABLE #danielmgranitto #oilpainting #landscapepainting #denver #colorado #zoo

Image of architectural structures, overgrown with vines and an open gateway leading to an unknown green space.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

This painting is nostalgic for me, I fit all of Los Angeles in my living room. I miss that place. “Planetarium,” 2025 Acrylic on Canvas, 40x30 Inches. Currently on view in “Among the Stars Within” at Aplomb Gallery, Dover NH

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Share more art please.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Existence,” 2024 Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 24 inches Currently on view in “Among the Stars Within” at Aplomb Gallery, Dover NH through February.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today’s studio view.

An artist’s studio with a work table full of brushes, paint tubes, and palette and 2 nearly finished paintings on the wall. One is multiple overlapping views of a woman in a field as she blends into the clouds. Another is a woman floating in a room and hitting the ceiling which ripples like the surface of water. There is a 3rd canvas on the wall that is blank.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

TIP: Here’s a Specialized New England Arts Feed (or you can make your own special interest feed) 1. Make a list of accounts. I made one of all New England Arts stuff. 2. View the list feed and select “Pin to Home” at the top 3. On your home feeds, you can view just posts from people on the list.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Another starter pack by @twocoatsofpaint.bsky.social of their writers/culture producers: go.bsky.app/UfTv98D

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Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

A starter pack by @twocoatsofpaint.bsky.social of Artists (mostly NYC) go.bsky.app/THaHdnj

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carrie R @carrie.studio · 2y ago

Pinning all the Contemporary Art/Artist Starter Packs in one thread, starting with artists ↓ LMK who I'm missing 💙

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Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

I made more starter packs- New England Artists and one for New England Arts organizations, museums, curators, & writers. I’ll repost the starter packs from time to time as they grow and I add more folks. Please share!! go.bsky.app/PUkk7fc go.bsky.app/FJX9PoD

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Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Took a break from all the fascism to see the Leonora Carrington show at the Rose Art Museum. We bonded, and I dreamt of running away to Mexico too. (More info in alt text)

A child-like figure stands with arms out in misty a room before a large mother-like figure with flowers in its hair. Wall text:

Night Nursery Everything
1947
Tempera on Masonite
Private collection
The most important thing that has ever happened to me is my two sons.
- Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington escaped war-torn Europe by marrying Renato Leduc, a Mexican diplomat and poet based in Portugal. The two arrived in Mexico in 1942 and divorced shortly thereafter.
In Mexico, Carrington developed lifelong friendships with Spanish-born painter Remedios Varo and Hungarian-born photographer Kati Horna (née Katalin Deutsch). The three Surrealist women, nicknamed "the three witches" because of their interest in magic and the occult, were at the center of a close-knit community of refugee artists and intellectuals who made Mexico their home. Through Horna and Varo, Carrington met Emerico (" Chiki") Weisz, a Hungarian Jewish photographer who had worked with Robert Capa and escaped from a concentration camp before finding refuge in Mexico. The two married and had two sons, Gabriel (b. 1946) and Pablo (b. 1947).
Scholars suggest that the birth of her children evoked memories of Carrington's own childhood and that this blend is presented in the warm scene depicted in Night Nursery Everything. Salomon Grimberg posits that the scene "takes place by candlelight in Gaby's bedroom.
He is the one-year-old toddler in the crib floating in the upper left of the room, and Leonora, who was about to give birth to Pablo, her second son, is working at her spinning wheel below.... Opposite, their cat sits comfortably on a cupboard."
The glowing tones and enchanting ambience echoes Gaby and Pablo's memories of the magical childhood that they experienced through their mother's eyes.

A decorated chair next to a table holding a glowing egg. A mist flows from the egg down to a checkered floor where a disemplbodied set of hands float over a smaller egg. Wall text:

The Chair: Daghda Tuatha de Danann
1955
Oil on canvas
Private collection
The painting's title and the inscriptions within it reveal its Irish source material. The Tuatha de Danann-"children of Danu," the universal mother goddess— were the third Divine Dynasty of Irish lore. Daghda was their father deity, who specialized in Druid magic.
"The ancient Irish venerated divine forces in all aspects of nature, in particular the sun god as a life-giver and promoter of fertility," Carrington scholar Salomon Grimberg explains. " The Chair: Daghda Tuatha de Danann brings together-in the image of a throne decorated with references to the creative power of the sun—the fertility of Daghda... Tuathan myths, and the glory of the children of Danu. The sun, like a flower with its petal-like rays, rests atop its high back, leading our eye to various solar references adorning the chair, including a bird rising from the sun, and a spiked wheel on the seat.
... Swirling mist emerging from under the chair travels upward, over two disembodied hands that play with the yet unrevealed future in the form of an egg; on the table, the apparition of a white rose is growing out of another egg."
The egg is a ubiquitous symbol of birth and transformation, central in myriad cultures and occult beliefs. It appears often within Carrington's oeuvre.

A woman has a picnic with animals
And mythical creatures. Wall text:

Pastoral
1950
Oil on canvas
Private collection
An intuitive feminist and environmentalist from a very early age, Carrington's quest for a harmonious coexistence for all living creatures on a well-cared-for earth finds expression in this utopian landscape. Art historical references, from Giorgione's The Tempest (1506 - 08) to Manet's Luncheon on the Grass (1862 - 63), do not obscure or diminish Carrington's unique vision.

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The only thing I know is that I don't know.
- Leonora Carrington
Leonora Corrington: Dream Weaver, the artist's first solo exhibition in New England, features rarely seen paintings and drawings by British-born, Mexican Surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Spanning over six decades of prolific creativity and reflecting a tenacious quest for knowledge, the artworks on view present mesmerizing portals into otherworldly realms of magic and mystery, populated by hybrid creatures and esoteric symbols
A pioneer of Surrealism, Carrington's work embodies her inquisitive nature and unbounded imagination. Born into a weolthy Anglo-rish
family. Carrington would spend her life freeing herself trom conventions and gendered strictures imposed upon her by society. Her rebellious spirit was nourished by her frish grandmother,
mother, and nanny,
who encouraged her immersion in imaginary worlds, and initiatec
her interest in trish taires. to klore, and mythology. Urawing and writing since an early age, she convinced her parents to send her to art schools in London and Florence. At nineteen, her mother gave
ner merbert keads lyso book on surredism, inspiring ner to rom the art movement in france. Alter an intense buf short-lived love affair with Max Ernst, Carrington experienced a series of traumatic events that led to o severe mental breakdown, forced institutionalization, and. finally, e daring escape from war-torn Europe. She settled in Mexico in 1942, when Mexico opened its doors to turopea refugees, and lived the rest of her long and very productive life in her adopted homeland.
Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver highlights the artis's versotility as she explored a wide variety of mediums, including tempero, gouache, acrylic, oil, pencil, pen, and fiber. Additionally, among the numerous drawings in the show are preparatory skelches for paintings and a mural, revealing Corrington's creative process as well as her virtuosity.

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

Follow my husband if you like pottery!

Stephen Goss Pottery@stephengosspottery.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’ve been carving and faceting my surfaces for years and have recently been working with a twisting method. Still learning, but quite happy with this yunomi-style cup and the iron oxide wash. #pottery #twistedpottery #stoneware

Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

I made a starter pack for Boston area artists- let me know who else to add or if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/9BJ8obX

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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 2y ago

Surrealists’ art was not just about dreams — it became a powerful political tool, exposing the oppression at the heart of modern political systems.

Surrealism’s Legacy of Antifascist Activism

A show at Munich’s Lenbachhaus museum is an urgent study in the meaningful art-political networks that stressed solidarity and unity over isolation.

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Bekka Teerlink @bekkateerlink.bsky.social · 2y ago

From order to chaos, moving from the past toward unknown futures. Currently on view in “Among the Stars Within” @aplomb_gallery (Dover NH) through February! “Quantum Entanglement,” 2025 Acrylic on Canvas, 40x30 inches