About Jacqueline Beckvermit
Born in Pompano Beach Florida to John Joseph Beckvermit IV and Ellen Mills in June of 1991.
“I just wish I wasn’t so fat,” the painting series exhibits the differing states of her mothers and Grandmothers bodies -a womans body overtime as witnessed by Jacqueline.
“To me, my mother wasn’t fat. She was my mother. A woman with strong legs and blue veins. With large breasts that hung down over a full belly of soft pillowing tissue. I saw strength, warmth, and beauty. But never something wrong.
My mother would go on to repeat those words for the next twenty-six years. My grandmothers would do the same and eventually, I would too. My bathing suit had to be perfect. My hips couldn't hang over the edge of the fabric. With no defenses an obsession formed. A restrictive diet developed by the time I was 21. And for the next ten years, I was unaware of how I lived in a constant state of hunger.”
Jacqueline began painting lumps of fat and curves in hopes to dissolve history, ”I want to live free of shame. To break through the learned ideals about how a woman's body is supposed to look and explore the natural unmanaged layers of life that envelope my bones.”
As an artist she hopes to continue these conversations through imagery that displays lightness, confidence, and sensuality within the raw terrain of women's bodies. She hopes that viewers may identify their features in the paintings and begin to question how they have come to see themselves, and how they may want to grow to witness themselves more compassionately.