Beatrix Ost

Beatrix Ost is an artist, writer, fashion designer, and ambassador of peace. She has also written screenplays, produced movies and theater, and acted in films and on the stage. When she arrived to New York from Germany as a young adult, she quickly became an art and fashion icon - and has remained an influential and acclaimed luminary in both worlds.  

In Her Own Words:

Happiness, for me, emerges from the treasure trove of mental DNA, the double helices of perception and philosophy from which our inner ecosphere is built up, filament by filament. Art is provocative flirtation between reality and the playful mind. The world teases the artist’s vision and symbolism to transcend the commonplaces of fact. A wheel is more than a wheel. It is the lodging-place of motion, or perhaps a wing, a cloud, a body of water.  

​Provocation is part of the game: my way of self-evidently being myself is, willy nilly, a challenge to the established network of symbols, just as it is when I present myself at a party with a brooch inscribed “Practicing silence”. I become a listener.  I paint as I dress: with playful order and a feel for disorder. I like it when fabric succumbs to extended use, and the same goes for the canvas. I play on it as if on an instrument between feeling and vision, I notice everything and more, and store it in my senses, visual and other. I enjoy the overflow of the moment, when the visual weds the emotional. As if I had eyes in my back. I feel everything fits together, because every moment is laden with endless possibilities.​