beantart is a Canadian figurative artist working at the intersection of traditional art and machine-assisted processes, exploring identity, memory, and transformation through painterly images that move between physical and digital space. She completed formal studies in fine art and maintains a studio practice rooted in observational drawing and painting.
Her work inhabits the moment the self becomes aware that it is no longer what it was, when something has already shifted but has not yet resolved into a new form. The compositions unfold between lived reality and psychological landscape, often depicting figures at moments of transition where the boundaries between body and environment begin to dissipate. Figures emerge through erasure and reconstruction. Through layered brushwork and ambiguity of form, her work invites viewers to reflect on the manner in which identity shifts through memory, perception, and time.
She is interested in what begins to give way in this state: how the body softens, opens, or dissolves as identity shifts. The resulting images exist within a threshold where the past remains perceptible but cannot be returned to, and the future has not yet taken shape. Transformation is not depicted as a fixed state, but as an ongoing process. The work is held in suspension, just after rupture and before resolution.
Recent work explores the symbolic and psychological presence of water, where figures submerge and encounter echoes of former selves. This emerging series considers water as a site where identity dissolves and reconstitutes through memory and reflection.
She has been included in notable group collections and exhibitions such as Strange History: Alternate Realities, VNDLs Season 1, and as a member of the Invisible Chicks. Her work has been shown in New York City, Philadelphia, and Seoul, as well as in the metaverse aboard the Stealth 80 Yacht Gallery.
beantart’s work can be found as NFTs on the Ethereum and Tezos blockchains, and can be collected through platforms including SuperRare and objkt.