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Contact Beau Wild by text message only at (386) 322-4249, or by email at beau@beauwild.com.
Correspondences may also be sent to 5960 Riverside Drive, Port Orange, FL 32127.
A “people watcher”. Several questions intrigued me then and continue to intrigue me now – why do people do what they do? What motivated their actions and reactions? What makes us all “tick”? Whether it is an elderly woman’s feeling of isolation, the outsider’s anxiety when courting a new friend, the conflicting joy and sadness of the surrogate mother, the unforgotten lives of those who have passed, these deeply empathetic connections are sensitive glimpses.
Recently, I am compelled to address some of our most pressing and often most contentious social and political problems within the topic of women’s issues such as domestic violence, body size acceptance, and a closer look into our indigenous women and girls who are disproportionately targets for hatred, violence, kidnapping and murder.
Whether I create work in a non-objective or figurative abstract format, these personal glimpses open a small window through which I can hopefully increase understanding and inspire change for the benefit of all of us.
Beau Wild has for 30 years explored figurative painting – the bond between the painter and the subject, the subject alone or in groups, even the artist’s own relationship with herself. The studio on Rose Bay with its breathtaking waterscape views would tempt any painter of nature, yet this artist’s attention throughout decades of exploration remains on what is simply called “the figure”. Acutely aware that this artist is, in fact, presenting more than this implies, it is the painter of the interior, the personal, the intimate.
A native Floridian, Beau Wild was educated in occupational therapy at Tufts University and in painting at the Museum School / Museum of Fine Arts, both in Boston. Dual roles as therapist and painter spanned decades and each enhanced the success of the other.
Beau returned to the childhood hometown of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1983 after 22 years in New England. Since then, Beau has shown work in nationwide art festivals, competitions and museums across the world and, in 2015, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award during a competition in Cincinnati, OH.
Today, Wild paints daily in her studio on Rose Bay in Port Orange, FL.
Juried into Beaux Arts of Central Florida. Beaux Arts of Central Florida was founded in 1962 by Lu Belmont.
Juried into the Florida Artists Group. This prestigious arts group was incorporated as a non-profit organization of professional artists in 1949 and is made up of artists whose work as attained national or state-wide recognition.
Induction into the National Association of Women Artists. For over 130 years, the National Association of Women Artists has included within its ranks prolific female artists such as Mary Cassatt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Louise Nevelson, Audrey Flack, and more.
Lifetime Achievement Award for Woman Artist at the 25th Annual Art Comes Alive.
Best in Show for “Forms of Freedom”.
Second Place at the 29th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition.
Ru Israels Award at Florida Artists Group.
First Place at Beaux Arts of Central Florida, Annual Members, Artists' Workshop for “Intimidation”.
Best in Show at Beaux Arts of Central Florida, Annual Members, for “On the Bright Side of the Moon”.
Best in Show at Beaux Arts of Central Florida, Annual Members, for “On the Bright Side of the Moon”.
Emeritus Award for the US in the 11th annual International Competition presenting the Women in the Arts Award
Florida State University Gallery & Museum, cover art.
"Coke Cola", cover art.
"Temporal Passages", Beau Wild reveals her painting process through time-lapse photography.
Cover and interior paintings.
“Artist Spotlight: Beau Wild Florida Artist Depicts Emotion and Mystery in Impressionistic Paintings”.
“Drawing Gestural Information”.
Two months of selected paintings and narratives during the first months of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book may be purchased from Hidden Bay Studio, Blurb, and Amazon.
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“Friends”. As part of the exhibit, “Witness to Creativity”.
“Temporal Passages”. As part of the exhibit, “Witness to Creativity”.
“Between Dreams & Reality”.
As part of Art in the Age of Trump.
"Sychronicity". As part of a group exhibit with Beaux Arts of Central Florida.
As part of the Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art.
The Healing Power of Art, Beaux Arts of Central Florida.
"Counting Our Blessings", as part of the Fl3tch3r Exhibit: Social & Politically Engaged Art.
As part of the Florida Artist Group 70th Anniversary Exhibit.
As part of Voice Lessons, an exhibition featuring four female artists: Eli Corbin, Fran Gardner, Lisa Shroud, and Beau Wild.
“Tootsie Roll”, 24"x72" suspended sculpture.
As part of “Existential Journeys: Selections from Beaux Arts of Central Florida”.
Six 66"x34" acrylic paintings installed in lobby.
Permanent collection.
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Corporate collection.
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Beau Wild's commentary work seeks to explore and generate awareness of issues such as domestic violence, body size acceptance, and the plight of indigenous women in the United States.
