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Jonathan Beer
Jonathan Beer's Artwork
Biography
Born 1988, New Orleans, Lousiana. Lives and works in New York.
I am a fine artist and I also make work ranging from illustration to graphic and web design. I also believe that by expanding my horizons I open up more doors and enable myself to be more successful with my art and design.
My work is exhibited in galleries in New York City and is part of various private collections around the United States. I graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2010 with a BFA in Illustration. I will be pursuing an MFA in 2010 at the NY Academy of Art.
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Artist Statement
“And what shall I love if not the enigma?” Giorgio de Chirico’s question, posed in 1911, alludes to man’s aspirations to answer the elusive riddles of nature. The endless unraveling of those mysteries lies at the heart of my work, focusing specifically on the nebulous realm of the mind. Within my paintings I create a cosmological system from the contents of my private mental universe – depicting mental processes constantly in transition; actions associated with cognition and memory. When working I become both cartographer and naturalist, exploring and documenting the dislocated, quasi-architectural planes of memory. I am interested in the intricate connections between exterior and interior; between a constructed, architectural space and an interior, biological space. Tension arises in my art by giving my inherently function-less images the impossible ability to function as a tool for visualizing concepts too abstract to be empirically depicted or illustrated.
A strong understanding and interest in natural science, art theory/history, philosophy and literature are paramount in enriching my artistic forms and expanding my intellectual horizons. Like Joseph Beuys and Buckminster Fuller, I believe as an artist it is my responsibility to introduce and encourage notions of a better world. I am inspired by the work of Franz Ackerman, Eve Andree Laramee, William Kentridge, Richard Serra, Roberto Matta, Julie Mehretu, and Albert Bierstadt.
My aspirations as an artist are exemplified by this Yves Klein passage, “The painter must paint a single masterpiece: himself, unceasingly.” |
