Welcome to jpbegley-art/art services

artist. curator. consultant.

the intersection between drawing, painting, printmaking and digital technology!

After forty years being a printmaker and painter, as well as a gallery director and teacher, inspired by David Hockney, I began drawing on my iPhone in the summer of 2014. Since December 2014, I have completed and posted at least one digital drawing each day.

Most begin with an appropriated image encountered in my daily existence. I find the ubiquity and constant presence of the phone both inspiring and challenging. It provides a most serious playground for dada abstraction and absurdist commentary.

The ability of the digital format to appropriate, re-contextualize and manipulate images allows me to engage with both historic and contemporary issues of post-modern, interdisciplinary art.

Recent Activity

Curatorial - Over the MOON: The Eclectic Art of Ann Farnsley

Community Art Center of Switzerland County, Vevay, IN - September10/October 9, 2022

* catalog available from the community Art Center, 214 Fery St., Vevay, IN 47403

The Carnegie Center For Art & History, New Albany, IN - November 3 - January 7 2023

* "Speaking with Ann" lecture by "Over the Moon" curator John Begley 12 13 22

video by Juan Thompson

https://youtu.be/PCOqtd06xfg?si=oXAByLXO6is0OLbk

* WXOX ARTxFM, LVA's Artists Talk - John Begley talks "Over the Moon: The Eclectic Art

of Ann Farnsley", at The Carnegie Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00t_MDgwMIw

Exhibition KMAC Couture 2023

A collaboration with Linda Hawpe and Carrie Coaplen, model, for the Kentucky Musuem of Art and Craft's annual fashion extravaganza, Costume of the theme of a book, in this case

Little Red Riding Hood