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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
"Pak"ed/un"Pak"ed
An installation by JP Begley and Linda Erzinger at Jasper Community Arts, Thyen-Clark Cultural Center, Jasper, Indiana, May 2- July 21, 2024.
Exhibition
go to Blog for more info
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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
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* 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
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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.