Exhibition: Kristin Beeler: Beauty and Other Monsters at Velvet da Vinci Art Jewelry and Sculpture Gallery, San Francisco

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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, Pendant "Sticks",

Kristin Beeler, Pendant "Sticks"
Artist: Kristin Beeler

Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, Brooch "Ossuary",

Kristin Beeler, Brooch "Ossuary"
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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, Pendant,

Kristin Beeler, Pendant
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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, Brooch,

Kristin Beeler, Brooch
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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, Brooch, "Sidelong",

Kristin Beeler, Brooch, "Sidelong"
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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, "Rag and Bone" Locket,

Kristin Beeler, "Rag and Bone" Locket
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Artist: Kristin Beeler: Kristin Beeler, "Insect Lifestyles" (detail),

Kristin Beeler, "Insect Lifestyles" (detail)
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Kristin Beeler: Beauty and Other Monsters

July 18 - August 26, 2007

Artist Statement:

Beauty, as the perception of effortless perfection, is both protective and exclusionist. Its nature is unapproachable, our need for it unrealistic.

We experience beauty as an internal sigh of relief when our senses connect sympathetically with the external. In those moments, beauty feels less like a discovery and more like a remembering. In the sublime, it makes us feel closer to god. In the extreme, it separates us from ourselves.

If I could, I would make pieces that were so beautiful, they made people uncomfortable, touching off an itch of vague desire. Beauty, it seems, is the heat generated by friction between that longing and relief.