Beverly Fresh

BEVERLY FRESH (Zack Ostrowski) is a contemporary artist and musician from the United States of America. He has broken several World Records; including breaking the most eggs on his head and compiling the tallest stack of rap tapes. Beverly Fresh has exhibited and performed throughout the United States and internationally, including China, Japan, Peru, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, France and Germany. Recent notable exhibitions and performances include, REALLY SOMETHIN ELSE (2018), a solo exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum, MR MDWST - A REAL GOOD TIME (2015), a solo exhibition at the Cranbrook Museum of Art, TAKE THE BACK ROADS AND COLLECT MYSELF (2014) a solo exhibition at the Pavillon am Milchhof (Berlin), and A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, curated by Michelle Grabner at the Hyde Park Art Center (2014). He is the co-founder of sUPERIORbelly (1998), a multi-media art and design collective and record label based in Detroit, and cofounder of WILD AMERICAN DOGS (2013), an interdisciplinary art duo focused on producing experimental feature films and performance. In 2016, he co-founded the Archive of Midwestern Culture with Greg Scott. His latest album PIES (2023) is an experimental hip-hop album produced by Detroit’s Blair French (Dial.81) on the Detroit/Chicago underground label SUPERIORBELLY. In 14 tracks, the vinyl-only record reinterprets several strange-monologues and acapella screamers from Beverly’s fifteen years spent traveling the backroads for his OUTSKIRTS performance series in which he survived a dynamite blast, disturbed a pancake breakfast, lost a demolition derby, and was crowned rooster crowing champion. Since releasing his 2011 off-kilter debut boom bap studio album BED, the self-proclaimed “neighborhood weirdo” has been busy performing in basements, backyards, country fairs and tent revivals, created multimedia exhibitions for major museums, made a feature film, and taught and lectured internationally. He is a member of the experimental rap duo prologo(purgatory) (est. 1996) currently on hiatus.