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Bruce Beasley was born in Los Angeles in 1939.

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Bruce Beasley Bio

BORN
May 20, 1939; Los Angeles, California

EDUCATION
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1957-59
University of California, Berkeley, California, B.A. 1962

Curriculum Vitae

A downloadable, comprehensive listing of Bruce Beasley's sculpture commissions, exhibitions and inclusion into select collections and publications.

Sixty Year Retrospective Book

This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive overview of Bruce Beasley' recent Sixty Year Retrospective presented at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ. It includes reflections on his career. In a conversation, Beasley and Lawrence Weschler discuss art and activism. Essays discussing his processes and appraising his impact are written by curator Tom Moran and Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Director of the Bruce Beasley Foundation and Professor of Art History at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.

Hardcover, 180 pgs, 11" x 11" - Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Available at select online bookstores

Selected Publications

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Bruce Beasley

American abstract expressionist sculptor

Bruce Beasley (born 1939, in Los Angeles, California) is an American abstract expressionist sculptor born in Los Angeles and currently living and working in Oakland, California. He attended Dartmouth College from 1957–59, and the University of California, Berkeley from 1959-62 where he earned his BA.

Career

Beasley ranks among the most productive sculptors of the post- Henry Moore/David Smith generation of abstract sculptors. Today, Beasley is recognised as one of the most noteworthy and innovative sculptors on the American West Coast. His work can be found in the permanent collection of 40 art museums around the world, including: Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Guggenheim Museum, New York City; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Art Museum of China in Beijing; the Musee National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, DC; the Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany; and the Islamic Museum in

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For six decades, sculptor Bruce Beasley has worked in a range of media to build complex, resonant arrangements from simple shapes able to communicate the primacy of form and the complexity of human emotion.

Bruce Beasley was born in Los Angeles in 1939. A typical hot rod loving teen raised in West Los Angeles, he graduated from University High School then headed for Dartmouth as a Freshman to study rocket engineering. After taking one of the few art classes Dartmouth offered, Beasley knew that his calling was art. He transferred to the University of California, Berkeley to study sculpture, and while still an undergrad, Beasley’s very early work titled Tree House, from the Cast Iron series, was selected for inclusion in the influential exhibition, The Art of Assemblage (1961), at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), alongside art historical names such as Duchamp and Picasso.

That was the beginning of a relentless trajectory that has included six decades of international critical recognition, over 200 international exhibitions, and 1000’s of publicati