JEFFREY BEAUCHAMP - AVAILABLE WORK
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Jeffrey Beauchamp: Artist Statement

The landscapes done in the studio are all inventions that evolve over many weeks and months...it's terribly inefficient but that's how I work. The inspiration for these pieces would come around occasionally as I'd catch glimpses of an enticingly believable space among the chaos of brushstrokes. That elusive state, where the imagination recognizes something timeless, a story you'd like to be part of or a view you'd happily lose yourself in, has been inspiring from early on and is a feeling you can find in certain literature and music that encourages a sense of humanity, like Dickens and Vivaldi.

For a show in San Francisco a few years ago I tried to come up with a really pretentious-sounding term as a joke to describe what I had started doing and ended up actually liking it: Sub-Pastoral Expressionism. It sounds disapproving, like "sub-human", as if it's below anything really pastoral, but makes sense if you imagine my earlier, Claude- and Turner- inspired things exploded a bit with the color turned up...a glimpse of the seething atomic structure beneath a serene landscape. Aside from those two giants I've always loved Rubens, Titian and the early Bugs Bunny cartoons... they're like Goya meets Puccini in Oz.

Jeffrey Beauchamp: C.V.

Born in Montclair, New Jersey, 1964
Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco Art Institute Honor Studio 18, 1989
Studied at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1982-1984
Lives and works in San Francisco

Honors
Honorable Mention, SVMA Biennial, 2005
Artist’s Choice Award, Plein Air Biennial, Napa Valley Museum, 2003
Marin Arts Council Artist Grant, 2002
Best Painting, Sonoma Arts Guild: “Erotica”, 2000
SECA Award Nominee, 1993

Selected Solo Exhibitions
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Immigration Is The Sincerest Form of Flattery, San Francisco, CA, 2008
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Mountains, Shoes and The Laurel & Hardy Rule, San Francisco, CA, 2006
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, How About Sub-Pastoral Expressionism, San Francisco, CA, 2004
Mill Valley Community Center, Recognition, Mill Valley, CA, 2002
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Serenity Now!, Portland, OR, 2001
Susan Cummins Gallery, Measureless to Man, Mill Valley, CA, 1998
Susan Cummins Gallery, Telluria, Mill Valley, CA, 1995
Susan Cummins Gallery, Les Barricade Mysterieuses, Mill Valley, CA, 1993
Susan Cummins Gallery, Introductions, Mill Valley, CA, 1991
Alligator Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Diego Riveria Gallery at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 1989

Selected Group Exhibitions
Triton Museum, Landscapes: Rural and Urban Realities, Santa Clara, Ca, 2007
Sonoma Valley Museum, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art Biennial, 2005
Sonoma Valley Museum, Wet Paint, 2005
Napa Valley Museum, Plein Air Biennial, 2003
Dominican University, Art With A Heart, Featured Artist, San Rafael, CA, 2002
Sausalito Women’s Club, Salon of Plein Air Paintings, Sausalito, CA, 2002
College of Marin Art Gallery, California Landscapes, Kentfield, CA, 2002
Sonoma Arts Guild, Erotica, Sonoma, CA 2000
Marin Community Foundation, Conversations With The Landscape, Larkspur, CA, 2000
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Disintegration - Contemporary Landscapes, Portland, OR, 2000
Susan Cummins Gallery, Historical References, Mill Valley, CA, 1994
Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Contemporary Realism, Monterey, CA, 1993
Edith Caldwell Gallery, Self-Portraits In Black & White, San Francisco, CA, 1993
Susan Cummins Gallery, Why Painting, Curated by Bill Berkson, Mill Valley, CA, 1992
San Francisco Airport, 1992
Susan Cummins Gallery, Sacred Landscape, Mill Valley, CA, 1991
Zen Center Hospice, Concerning Nature, San Francisco, CA, 1991
William Sawyer Gallery, Images of the Land, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Charles Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1989
Berkeley Arts Commission, Berkeley, CA, 1988

Selected Publications and Reviews
“Reality Check-Six Artist Stretch the Boundaries.” Southwest Art Magazine. February 2006.
“Rising Suns - Twelve People to Watch on the Art and Entertainment Scene.” Pacific Sun. August 2004.
Marin Independent Journal. April 26 2004.
“Cars, Cigars & Stars.” The Robb Report. February 2003.
“Beyond Landscape.” The Oregonian. May 4 2000.
Marin Independent Journal. May 31 2000.
“At the End of Art.” Artweek. May 21 1992.
“Jeffrey Beauchamp at Susan Cummins.” Art In America. January 1992.