JP Begley
art/art services
Welcome to JPBegley-art/art services - artist/curator and arts 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 assume, usurp, re-contextualize and manipulate images allows me to engage with both historic and contemporary issues of post-modern, interdisciplinary art.
Latest Exhibition
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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
Recent Curatorial
- see blog post
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
Digital drawing on dye sublimation printed fabric.
All daily digital drawings completed since Dec 31, 2014 are posted here.
This is Aerial View 4, daily digital drawing from February 12, 2024
Daily Digital Drawing Aerial View 4 - Feb. 13, 2024