Bernice Bing
American artist (1936–1998) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bernice Bing (10 April 1936 – 18 August 1998) was a Chinese American lesbian artist involved in the San Francisco Bay Area art scene in the 1960s.[1][2] She was known for her interest in the Beats and Zen Buddhism, and for the "calligraphy-inspired abstraction" in her paintings, which she adopted after studying with Saburo Hasegawa.
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Born | Bernice Lee Bing (1936-04-10)April 10, 1936 San Francisco, California, United States |
Died | August 18, 1998(1998-08-18) (aged 62) Philo, California, United States |
Education | Studied with Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Elmer Bischoff, Clyfford Still, Frank Lobdell |
Alma mater | California College of Arts and Crafts, California School of Fine Arts |
Known for | Oil painting |
Movement | Abstractionism |
Awards | Asian Heritage Council award (1990)[1] National Women's Caucus for Art Lifetime Achievement Award (first Asian-American to receive award) (1996)[1] |
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Bernice Bing was a co-founder of San Francisco’s SCRAP, according to the 2013 film about her life[3] and an article in the SF City College Guardsman.