Rick Beerhorst
Artist bio Rick Beerhorst is the Patriarch of the Beerhorst Family. Both he and his artist wife Brenda Beerhorst have been full time working artists for many years. Working together with their six children and artist friends the first year of Art Prize '09 ended up in the top 50 with their Art Prize entry The Wonder Wagon. Last year they created Plan B, a "Post Peak Everything" eco village on the bank of the Grand River that posed the question, "what will our future look like when we run to the end of cheap fossil fuel" ? Plan B won the Best Use of Urban Space Award from new urbanist expert Jeff Speck. Beerhorst is a narrative figure painter who has his work in collections around the world. This year is creating a painting that weaves together portrait, still life, and urban landscape painting in one picture. The content speaks to the city of Grand Rapids recent cultural coming of age.

Rick Beerhorst

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Rick Beerhorst is the Patriarch of the Beerhorst Family. Both he and his artist wife Brenda Beerhorst have been full time working artists for many years. Working together with their six children and artist friends the first year of Art Prize '09 ended up in the top 50 with their Art Prize entry The Wonder Wagon.
Last year they created Plan B, a "Post Peak Everything" eco village on the bank of the Grand River that posed the question, "what will our future look like when we run to the end of cheap fossil fuel" ? Plan B won the Best Use of Urban Space Award from new urbanist expert Jeff Speck.
Beerhorst is a narrative figure painter who has his work in collections around the world. This year is creating a painting that weaves together portrait, still life, and urban landscape painting in one picture. The content speaks to the city of Grand Rapids recent cultural coming of age.

About the work
Title: double rose portrait
Art form: 2-D
Medium: oil painting on wooden panel with artist made frame
Year created: 2011
Description of work: This painting called the double rose is 3 feet by 4 feet and is in a artist made gold leaf frame. The subject matter has to do with my belief in a spiritual reality unseen by physical sight.
Height:	5 feet
Width:	4 feet
Depth:	1 feet

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