Month: July 2020
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Meet The Artist: Rachel Tine
Rachel Tine’s career has been as study in resilience. A lifelong artist, she picked up photography at the age of 14 and landed her first professional shoot just two years later, regularly working for local bands. However, this promising early career was cut short by a fire that ravaged her work and destroyed her camera. […]
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Artist Talk with Ibrahim Ali-Salaam and Raleigh Strott
If you missed the artist talk, enjoy the recording of it here! If the video isn’t working, check it out at here on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/beacongallery/review/443168959/53325c1682
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Artist Talk with Jean Sbarra Jones
We had a delightful chat with Jean Sbarra Jones over zoom the other day. If you happened to miss it, check it out over at Vimeo (link at the bottom) https://vimeo.com/442824067
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A poem for Jean Sbarra Jones’s Dress in Water Series
Writer Nikita Deshpande saw Jean Sbarra Jones’s Dress in Water series and was inspired to write a poem. Enjoy! Check out more of Nikita Deshpande’s work on her website: https://www.nikitadeshpande.org
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Meet the Artist: Raleigh Strott
We at Beacon Gallery recently had the opportunity to interview the delightful Raleigh Strott, whose work is part of our current show, Mixed Messages. Strott’s work is smart and complex, drawing on retro pornography to create beautiful, geometric or organic-looking pieces of cut paper artwork that question the status quo. (And a big shout out […]
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Meet the Artist: Ibrahim Ali-Salaam
From the outset of known visual art, humanity has been captivated by the task of representing the body. Though this instinct has been subverted in the last century as art has moved further and further into the realm of the abstract and conceptual, many artists continue to draw on the human form for inspiration. Few […]
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Meet the Artist: Jean Sbarra Jones
A large, rippling swathe of fabric glides through the water, startling the aquatic life around it. As it twists and turns, gathers and unfurls, the movement of the water and the reflection from the sky breathe character into what was once inanimate. Suddenly, the motion stops and the fabric floats. Serene, yet unsettling, the dress […]