Video: When the beer is not inside, but outside. Beer art by Karen Eland
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Those who doubt the nobility of such a drink as beer should pay attention to the work of the American artist Karen Eland … You can really trust her taste: readers of Cultural Studies will probably remember the coffee paintings with which she debuted on our website, and today we will talk about paintings painted exclusively with alcohol. If tea and even wine are successfully used instead of dyes, why not take a chance and do the same with beer? This idea came to the artist's head for a reason. Having experimented with coffee painting, she began to look for new ideas and materials for creativity, and naturally, first of all, she drew attention to her favorite drinks. Not only their own, but also millions of other people. Beer of different varieties, like coffee of different strengths, leaves traces of different shades on paper and fabric, but what else is needed for monochrome painting? This is how the first drawings with beer aroma were born.
Interest in beer art, as the artist calls her painting, flared up with renewed vigor, spreading far beyond the city of Bend in Oregon, where Karen lives and works. She began to be invited to festivals and beer tastings, and her paintings are in demand among both brewers and beer lovers. The artist makes many works to order for tasting houses and elite breweries, and today the geography of beer creativity has spread to the United Arab Emirates. There Karen Eland went to the Coffee and Tea Convention as a guest writer, where she demonstrated both the art of coffee painting and beer art.
You can see the artist's complete beer portfolio on her website.
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