Gene Beery

Gene Beery (born 1937) is an American painter and photographer, who has been described as an expressionist, Pop artist, Minimalist, and Conceptualist higher than his career of fifty-plus years. He is primarily known for his text-based canvases, based upon the concept that words and the ideas they make angry can exist as works of art in themselves. Living and keen in New York City in the late 1950s and further on 1960s, Beery was at the center of the momentum of both Pop and Conceptual art. Since the 1990s, Beery has along with worked as a photographer, intimately documenting his family, friends and sparkle in a snapshot style. He currently lives and works in Sutter Creek, California.

Beery is represented by Bodega in New York, and Parker Gallery in Los Angeles.