Beatrix arrived in New York as an immigrant from Germany as a young adult in the 70’s. Her love for art quickly took root and she used her love of visual rhetoric to serve fashion icons. She continues to do so to this day and works with major actors and designers such as Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Ost has remained an influential and acclaimed luminary in both the fashion and art world.
Ost was educated at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts where she studied with Oskar Kokoschka at his Schule des Sehens. She has held a residency at New York Academy of Art and has exhibited internationally. Her latest books includes The Philosopher’s Style, a compilation of interviews that redefine “style,” focusing on the beauty of community by spotlighting the stories of strangers Ost meets in NYC’s Central Park. Throughout the book, Beatrix converses with many inspiring individuals from a neurologist seeking the cure to Alzheimer’s, to photographer and amputee, Giles Duley. Previous publications include her books “More than Everything” and “A Piece of Me.”
" 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. "
" There is a huge circus round about me,
like an existential storm with the artist in the eye of it,
in complete silence. Even the most elementary
moments of life. I love waking up in the morning,
lying back down in the evening. The face of the waiter
is a drama of its own, the hairdresser a whole
invention in herself, a film scene."
