Jake's Bio

Currently I paint Birds and Binary, which is representative of my whimsical observations of Social Media & Other forms of electronic communication: Online Gaming, Music, Downloads, Conspiracy Webs, Pop Culture etc.
-Jake

Bodies of work

• Binary Birds: Humorous observations of Social Media & other forms of electronic communication.
• Abstract: Often people have asked why I put that thing in front of that lovely abstract, these I left alone
• PopCult: Explorations into the absurdities of pop culture.  Its really fun.
• Figurative: The human form in action and in repose
• Cruise: The romance and fantasy that is roaring down the open road in low flight.  
• Pastel:  Exploring new ideas rapidly brought life through the medium that is pastel. 
• Aerial: Exploring the abstract qualities of aerial landscape, with birds.
• Exploratory Stuff:  New ideas that I am kicking around. 
• Fractal Dreams: Paintings exploring the beauty of fractals, tessellations, mathematics and their connection to the natural world.
• Graffiti Series: Primitive archetypes, motifs, limited color pallets produced on canvas textured with pumice.
• Folks and Critters: Portraits and figurative works, people and animals.
• The Cactus Flower Series: Studies of native desert flowers of the southwest.
• The Alaska Series: Investigations into Pacific Northwest mythology: ravens, whales, Dalls sheep, otters, owls, auroras and starscapes.  
• Sticks: These paintings hark to time spent camping in Northern AZ at the So High Ranch: Aspens and Pine Trees.
• Red Rocks: Paintings inspired by Oak Creek Canyon and Sedona AZ: Riparian scenes, sculpted red rocks, rounded gray rocks, water and trees. 
• Xmas Dementia Series:  Annual visitation in to the absurdities of holiday mythology created in digital cartoons.
• The Formative Series: Explorations of Stories to be Told. Detailed paintings of the fantastic and surreal.

Selected Exhibitions

• 48th Annual Glendale Art Council Juried Fine Arts Competition, Sahuaro Ranch Park Glendale, AZ January-February 2010
• #TwitterArtExhibit Moss, Norway December 2010-February 2011
• US Artists Biennial Broadway Gallery New York City, NY, September 2010
• 2009 Florence Biennale Fortezza Da Basso, Florence Italy December 2009
• Sonoran Safari Arizona Museum for Youth May 2-August 10, 2008
• MOB5 at the Kollectiv Art Detour 20 March 2008
• Underwater Fantasea Arizona Museum for Youth March 2007 - July 2007
• Art Detour 19 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob4 March 2007
• Art Detour 18 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob3 March 2006
• Sunday At Shemer Shemer Art Museum November 2005
• Introducing McDowell Row Garfield Galleria Suite 102 November 2005
• Third Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Reunion FestDevil October 2005
• Two Artists Two Visions Guest artist Cobalt Blue Gallery Phoenix AZ October 2005
• Art Detour 17 MonOrchid Mystery Gallery Mob2 March 2005
• Second Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Homecoming November 2004
• Guest artist Cobalt Blue Gallery Phoenix AZ August 2004
• Grand Opening of the Phix Gallery Phoenix AZ May 2004
• White Lace, Promises and Big Black Dogs at The Paper Heart Gallery Phoenix AZ December 2003
• Promotion for White Lace, Promises and Big Black Dogs 101 Renaissance Plaza Phoenix AZ November 2003
• First Annual Herberger College of Fine Art Artwalk at ASU's Homecoming October 2003
• artlink, Inc. Mystery Gallery 111 West Monroe Phoenix AZ July-September 2003

Jake Beckman's artist's bio, resume, curriculum vitae. AKAJake, Phoenix, AZ, fine artist and representational abstract acrylic painter of the beautiful and the absurd: whimsy, pop, cactus flowers, landscapes, seascapes, starscapes, folks and critters. Jake's work incorporates mythology, archetypes, fantasy, mathematics and physics.