Carole Bersin
Based outside of Sandstone, Minnesota, where every window looks out to the woods, Carole has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with other artists and communities throughout her
career. Originally from Illinois, she moved to Minnesota in 1982 after receiving her BFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Stumbling into sign-painting after landing in Minneapolis, Carole spent the 1980s and 90s on traditional hand-lettered signs, incorporating pictorial images wherever she could. That led her to The
Walldogs (http://thewalldogs.com/ ) a group of international sign and mural artists that meet once a year to paint multiple murals and old-fashioned wall advertisements over the span of 4 to 5 days
in one lucky town. That yearly event, where artists meet to work and learn from each other, is an apprenticeship of sorts, and enabled Carole to shift the main focus of her commercial work to
original murals and custom artwork.
Moving to rural Minnesota a few years ago, away from the hustle of the city, has given Carole the ‘time and space’ around her brain to spend more time on her own art. In 2016 she received an Artist’s
Initiative grant from the East Central Regional Arts Council of Minnesota to pursue her interest in working with the figure. Spending time in her studio, a transformed hunting cabin, Carole also does
works inspired by the natural world that surrounds her.
Carole lives by the motto Live, Laugh, Dream…In Color and says, “I think of myself as a Narrative Realist. Whether figurative or scenic I strive to tell a story. I believe that art, with its ability
to evoke emotion in the human psyche, can be a voice for positive change in the world. Visually, I am interested in the way the shapes and colors of the world are juxtaposed on the shapes and colors
of the rest of the world. I work in oils, acrylics and many drawing mediums.”
Some of the artists that have influenced and inspired my work are Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Wayne Thiebaud, David Hockney... and of course Alicia Rheal!"
Carole Bersin and Alicia Rheal created the "Go Pack Go" mural on Hanke's Sentry Foods. Carole painted "Ka-Boom!!!" and also "Love Letter to Wittenberg" on the Sport & Spine Clinic.
cbersin@visi.com
612-229-5195
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