John beerman biography
John Beerman is a....
Durham painter John Beerman in his home in Durham, NC.
“I find solace in looking at the landscape.
I think it’s a human thing.John Beerman is a landscape painter and North Carolina native and current Hillsborough resident whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
We all do.”
–John Beerman
by LIZA ROBERTS
photographs by LISSA GOTWALS
The 34 paintings currently on view at Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh – luminous, reverential landscapes and still lifes depicting North Carolina mountains, South Carolina beaches, Texas ranchland, and Tuscan hillsides – are the work of a transcendent depictor of light, a subtle student of color, a lover of nature.
John Beerman, lately of Durham, is the artist.
“A master of the rural American sublime,” as Tibor de Nagy, Beerman’s gallery in New York, attests, Beerman was born and raised in Greensboro and lived for three decades on the Hudson River, steeping himself in the beauty of that valley and the work of the artists it spawned.
But the South never really left him, and now that he has returned to it, his work shows the gentle influence of the nature, people, and