WSNC 2022 Online Member Exhibition

March 1 to April 15

2022 Online Member Exhibition Prospectus

With Judge Benita Brewer

Benita Brewer is a visual artist residing in the suburb of Chicago, Illinois. She grew up in northern Indiana, earned a Bachelor of Fine Art from Indiana and a Master of Fine Art from University of Cincinnati. She worked in the field of graphic design for a number of years developing video-disks for nursing education, animations of plant and insect growth cycles for the agricultural market, and websites for celebrity estates including Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe and Malcolm X. She also taught at Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne as an assistant Professor in visual design and multimedia for seven years before relocating to Tulsa, Oklahoma. While in Oklahoma she participated in the Creative Capital Development Program sponsored by the NEA and Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Oklahoma Arts Leadership program which focuses on developing projects that assist with community revitalization, education, and overall quality of life through art.

In 2015, she moved to Chicago due to job relocation and to be closer to family. She is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, treasurer for the Elmhurst Artists Guild and member of the Illinois Watercolor Society.

Painting for Benita is a form of storytelling. Her ideas often start with a personal connection with an object. It is the spark used for developing a composition that reflects the essence of the memory but becomes more abstract and universal. The story may be hers but the viewer interprets the image from his or her own perspective. Much of her formal art training centered on the graphic arts and she enjoys paying homage to the typographers and designers that so greatly influence our view of the world. Many of her paintings include bits of labels or graphic shapes and signs.