Kevin Beers

When Kevin Beers was in art school, abstraction was all the rage, and although Beers was clearly in possession of great talent, his professors constantly tried to dissuade him from representational painting. Instead, listening to his own muse, Beers was drawn to the powerful realism of Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, and George Bellows, all of whom had fallen in love with the coast of Maine, especially Monhegan Island.

 

Years later, Beers visited Maine, seeking out the very places painted by Hopper, Bellows, and Kent-- craggy islands, dramatic headlands guarded by lighthouses, sun-dazzled white buildings, and intense blue skies and seas. As with so many artists before him, Beers was struck by the quality of light in Maine, by the way it bounced off surfaces everywhere, creating sharp shadows and brilliant colors.

Every summer after, Beers packed up his car and headed to Monhegan Island for the summer months, becoming one of that island's most recognizable artists. Reluctantly, he always returned to Brooklyn, New York, come fall. Three years ago, that all changed. Beers and his wife Amy decided to move to Maine, settling in a spacious 19th-century sea captain's house in the midcoast village of Thomaston.

With the freedom to explore Maine's coast, Beers soon discovered a veritable treasure trove of spectacular points and lighthouses--Pemaquid, Owls Head, Two Lights, and Boothbay Harbor's Burnt Island. With "Points of Light," his new show at Gleason Fine Art, Kevin Beers delights us with the joy he has found living in Maine, painting the rugged beauty of Maine's coast and its simple, stark-white buildings.

Artwork

The Barnacle with Flag
oil on canvas, 12x16"
$2,200
Monhegan Town from Lighthouse Hill
oil on canvas, 14x18"
$2,400
Monhegan Shadows
oil on canvas, 26x38"
$7,200
Monhegan from the Meadow
oil on canvas, 11x14"
$1,800
Swim Beach in Fog
oil on canvas, 12x16"
$2,200
Island Inn with Manana
oil on canvas, 14x18"
$2,400
Cloudy Carina
oil on canvas, 24x36"
$6,200
Wreck of the Sheridan
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Fitzgerald's Dory in Shadow
oil on canvas, 24x24"
$4,500
Manana in Light
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Church St., Stonington
oil on canvas, 12x16"
$2,200
Vaughan House
oil on canvas, 18x18"
$3,400
Swim Beach in Fog
oil on canvas, 12x16"
$2,200
Snowy Monhegan Museum
oil on canvas, 20x20"
$3,600
Route 73
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Rolling Clouds
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Rockland Rocks
oil on canvas, 14x18"
$2,400
Rockland Farm
oil on canvas, 14x18"
$2,400
Red House and Three Boats
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Orange Fields
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Manana Glow
oil on canvas, 12x24"
$3,800
Hazy Headlands, Monhegan
oil on canvas, 30x56"
$9,800
Fenced In, Pemaquid
oil on canvas, 24x24"
$4,500
Curtis Island
oil on canvas, 24x24"
$4,500
Classic Monhegan
oil on canvas, 9x12"
$1,600
Causeway
oil on canvas, 12x16"
$2,200
Red House, Monhegan
Oil on canvas 40x60"
$14,000
Toward Swim Beach
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,000
Manana in Shadow
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Lightkeepers House and Bell
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Big Bell
oil on canvas, 24x18"
$4,200
Beached
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Bright Day, McLoons
oil on canvas, 18x24"
$4,200
Monhegan Gulls, oil on canvas
30x60 inches
$12,000
Lightkeepers House with Bell, oil
30 x 40 inches,
$7,200
Lighthouse Panorama, oil on canvas
20x48 inches
$7,000
Painting, oil
30x40 inches
$7,200
Rainbow over Monhegan, oil on canvas
14x40 inches
$4,200
Up Close, oil on canvas
24x24 inches
$4,500
The Barnacle, oil
12x16 inches
$2,200
Stars and Stripes, oil on canvas
36 x 36 inches
$8,200
Winter Blues, oil
24 x 24 inches
$3,600
Florida Dodge, oil on canvas
20 x 20 inches
$$3,400
Cape Porpoise Truck, oil
20 x 20 inches
$20 x 20 inches
Snowy Dodge, oil
12x12 inches
$1,800
Old Blue Dodge, oil on canvas
12 x 12 inches
$1,800
Red Chevy, Nobleboro, oil
12x12 inches
$1,800
1940's Chevy, oil
12 x 12 inches
$1,800
Resting Red Chevy, oil
12 x 12 inches
$1,800