ARTIST 003 SEASON 3

Beverly Acha

Beverly Acha is a visual artist and first generation Latina born in Miami, Florida. She works in a variety of mediums including painting, drawing and printmaking. Rooted in observation, her abstraction captures the intangible sensorial and psychological experience of space through color, shape and repetition.

Often working in series, Beverly’s paintings build a distinct visual language and logic in response to the environment in which they are made. Referencing architecture, sound, diagrams, and landscape, her core concern is the perceptual slippage within these systems, the space between knowing and seeing, experience and memory, and the real and the imagined. Beverly is interested in experience that eludes language, and is currently working on “Artists in the Studio: On Doubt,” a book which compiles contemporary artist writings on the role and experience of doubt in the artistic practice. In December 2018 selections from the book were featured in the online art magazine Lookie-Lookie, “Ten Painters on Doubt”.

Beverly holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University and a BA from Williams College. Her recent solo exhibitions include Interlude at Aon organized by CUE Art Foundation in NYC (2018), Warm Form at Underdonk in Brooklyn, NY (2018) and Mutualities at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, NM (2016). Her work has been exhibited widely in group shows including LatchKey Gallery, NYC (2021); Good to Know.FYI, Miami, FL (2021); DC Moore Gallery, NYC (2019); Rubber Factory, NYC (2019); EFA Blackburn 20|20 Gallery, NYC (2018); International Print Center of NY, NYC (2017); Smack Mellon, NYC (2017); and El Museo del Barrio, NYC (2014), among others.

Beverly has been recognized with awards, artist residencies, and fellowships including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Fellowship, Fountainhead Residency, Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center Zeta Orionis Fellowship, Wassaic Project Residency and Education Fellowship, Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Aon-CUE Artist Empowerment Award, Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Travel Grant to Brazil, and the Frederick M. Peyser Prize in Painting. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings, Maake Magazine, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and she is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Lighthouse Works.

Learn more about Beverly on her website here.