Artist Biography: Beverly S. Alomepe

Bev’s love affair with crafting arose from a fascination with Cameroonian wax textile patterns and drawing with symbols from a young age.  Her medium is decorative paper cutting, which doubles as paper doll installations and stencils for 2D drawings.  Her work explores visibility, invisibility, and encapsulates the feeling of institutional racism on the panafrican community.  Her suspended paper cuts or “paper doll installations” arise from reflection on themes of visibility, invisibility, and are a commentary on how identity and the black body are perceived in the western world.

Bev is currently a graduate student at University of Massachusetts Medical School's Graduate School of Nursing studying to be a Family Nurse Practitioner with a Doctorate in Nursing Practice.  She is currently preparing for a duo exhibition for the Perspectives on Design Show in late July 2018 at Jaffe-Friede Gallery in Hanover, NH. 

Pursuant of both a career as a professional artist and a nurse, she seeks to merge her sensitivity to human emotion, the human condition, and human wellbeing with an independent studio practice exploring these themes.