Alumna showcases art worldwide, stays in LA for dynamic environment
Whitney Bedford graduated from the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture Department of Art in 2003 with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
The sights and sounds of Whitney Bedford’s studio disappear. With her first brush strokes, the UCLA alumna is transported into the world of her artwork, where she said paint and her inner emotions intertwine and manifest themselves as one on a blank canvas.After she graduated in 2003, Bedford’s art has been featured in exhibitions in cities throughout the world, such as Paris, Berlin, Prague and Milan.
Bedford currently teaches an art class called “Drawing the Subject” at the University of California, San Diego, painting for six to eight hours at her studio four days a week, and raises her six-month-old daughter.
The Daily Bruin’s Victoria Vallecorse spoke with Bedford on her UCLA graduate school experience, her international artwork exhibitions and how she incorporates emotion into her paintings.
Daily Bruin: What makes your artwork unique to you?
Whitney Bedford: If I am having one of those moments in my life where I am going through a particular emotion, I’ll pick imagery that I think reflects that, so my artwork is kind of like my diary … I paint throughout a period of emotion in my life, so (the paintings) act like vehicles, or receptacles for that emotion.
— Victoria Vallecorse, Feb. 26
Read the interview at the Daily Bruin website.