Bekka Teerlink Wright, Get Me Away From Here
Bekka Teerlink Wright
Get Me Away From Here
Acrylic on canvas
20" x 16"
Website: bekkateerlink.com
Instagram: @bekkateerlink
About | Bekka Teerlink has no hometown; she moved frequently as a child which led her to escape into daydreams and build a sense of home in her mind to take wherever she went. She was always the outside observer which allowed her to see things fresh, and make connections in her mind between very different places, things, experiences that she collected along the way. In her work, she creates magical realist landscapes full of symbolism and suggestions of narrative and commentary on the world around her.
Teerlink has a BA from Brandeis University in Studio Fine Arts Painting with a minor in Creative Writing Poetry and an MFA in Cinema-Television Production Cinematography from the University of Southern California. She has a studio at Vernon Street Studios in Somerville, MA, and works at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Teerlink approaches her paintings as visual poems – she collects and combines ordinary elements into an image that conveys the essence of what she’s seeing and feeling in a visual metaphorical language. Get Me Away From Here is about a moment of meditation — she sits amongst a room full of shifting anxieties dreaming of escape. But she is trying to get out of her mind, not her literal space. Teerlink listens to music to take her there, imagining a clear blue cloudless sky. Blue symbolizes calm, the feeling she is chasing, and it slowly starts chipping away at the anxious red, breaking down the walls. The title of the painting references the Belle and Sebastian song "Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying."
$725