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John Begley, One Artist’s Attic
ARTIST STATEMENT
One Artist’s Attic
Art Harmony’s Big Merz Giveaway
Papers, posters, objects, artifacts, souvenirs, and tchotchkes—FREE FOR THE TAKING!
The Quonset Hut is proud to host printmaker and installation artist John Begley, (BFA University of New Mexico, MFA Indiana University), who has most recently served as a Curator and Gallery Director at the University of Louisville. Begley has been involved with numerous community organizations including Louisville Visual Art, the New Harmony Print Workshop, and Zephyr Gallery. Come make a selection from the treasure trove!
ABOUT John Begley
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.
Learn more at: https://www.jpbegleyart.com/
