Beverly Bialik was born Brayna Basha in 1944 to Orthodox Hungarian and Polish immigrants in the Bronx, New York. She was raised in a tenement apartment and was prohibited from pursuing her passion of design and fashion, as her family saw it as contrary to their religious beliefs.

Beverly married her creative muse and life partner at 18. Together, they set out on an artistic bohemian path living in the West Village. They were both public school teachers and civil rights activists. It was at this time that they began creating anti-war documentaries, some of which aired on KCET’s “The American Dream Machine.” Beverly and her late husband wrote, directed, edited and produced almost two dozen 16mm films exposing the inequality, injustice, and outrage so many of their generation was feeling. Beverly and her husband shared the honor of an award at The Lincoln Center Film Festival in 1972 for their film “White Grease.”

Beverly moved to Los Angeles in 1975 with two young children (both of whom make their lives as artists) and she devoted her life to raising her children and working in early childhood education, directing the preschool at Temple Israel of Hollywood for many years in its infancy.

After fifty years of marriage, Beverly lost her partner and these circumstances forced her to start a new life. Although always artistic - sewing, quilting, designing, knitting, and entertaining her children with her drawings - Beverly had never formally painted until she enrolled in the ENCORE program at Pierce College and painted for the first time in her life in the fall of 2016.

Since then, Beverly has established a home studio where she spends hours painting and creating. She is also a talented novice sculptor and her favorite audience for her art is her two grandsons, Miles -an accomplished builder and musician- and Frederick, a budding watercolor and visual artist.