eric beal - "kids these days, 2022 "
Artwork Title, Year: kids these days, 2022
Medium: spray paint of canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24" x 36"
Price: $5,000
Artist Bio: eric beal’s work focuses on the individual experience within society-wide struggles against xenophobia, climate change, war, labor, and poverty. Developing his spray painting style through his 20s as a haphazard street artist, eric honed in on canvas-based, stenciled spray paint in 2020 to preserve his message. His practice revolves around contextualizing exaggerated dichotomies in a dialogical approach with the viewer.
eric beal (b. Waco, TX) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Baylor University, and has worked in medical research, communications, and media production, moving from Texas to Tokyo to Los Angeles. He is also the co-founder and producer at The Artscene, a community connecting artists and art-lovers around the world through sharing artists’ stories in the way they want them told with a focus on LA, Paris, and Tokyo.
Artist Statement: I create artwork that highlights societal issues that affect us all at an individual level, focusing on our collective experience to a tumultuous world where everything is political. In my 20s, I developed my love for stencils in their immediacy to transform a utility box into a message with the simple layering of 3 colors. Turning my, now, professional focus towards the political state of the world, I paint didactic scenes highlighting the extremes of our reality. A refugee being met with advancing, armed police. A mangrove growing in the parking lot of a flooded gas station. These are meant to strongly evoke reflection on our trajectory and inspire action.
Nearly all of my work is created in edition. Synthesizing my street art and printmaking background, I want the message of each piece to reach multiple audiences across the globe. Using a general design master, a painting begins with a new stencil, hand drawn and hand cut, that is then destroyed after painting. Any detail in figures is purely a play between the abstract shapes from the layers of paint, relating back to the theme of requiring the observer to see the picture as a whole, rather than its parts.
Politics informs my work on how individuals are affected by societal issues, such as hate, xenophobia, climate change, war, and labor. With a desire to italicize our interconnected nature, I hope that each work brings the real impact of our status quo to the forefront of the viewer's heart.
Artwork Title, Year: kids these days, 2022
Medium: spray paint of canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24" x 36"
Price: $5,000
Artist Bio: eric beal’s work focuses on the individual experience within society-wide struggles against xenophobia, climate change, war, labor, and poverty. Developing his spray painting style through his 20s as a haphazard street artist, eric honed in on canvas-based, stenciled spray paint in 2020 to preserve his message. His practice revolves around contextualizing exaggerated dichotomies in a dialogical approach with the viewer.
eric beal (b. Waco, TX) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Baylor University, and has worked in medical research, communications, and media production, moving from Texas to Tokyo to Los Angeles. He is also the co-founder and producer at The Artscene, a community connecting artists and art-lovers around the world through sharing artists’ stories in the way they want them told with a focus on LA, Paris, and Tokyo.
Artist Statement: I create artwork that highlights societal issues that affect us all at an individual level, focusing on our collective experience to a tumultuous world where everything is political. In my 20s, I developed my love for stencils in their immediacy to transform a utility box into a message with the simple layering of 3 colors. Turning my, now, professional focus towards the political state of the world, I paint didactic scenes highlighting the extremes of our reality. A refugee being met with advancing, armed police. A mangrove growing in the parking lot of a flooded gas station. These are meant to strongly evoke reflection on our trajectory and inspire action.
Nearly all of my work is created in edition. Synthesizing my street art and printmaking background, I want the message of each piece to reach multiple audiences across the globe. Using a general design master, a painting begins with a new stencil, hand drawn and hand cut, that is then destroyed after painting. Any detail in figures is purely a play between the abstract shapes from the layers of paint, relating back to the theme of requiring the observer to see the picture as a whole, rather than its parts.
Politics informs my work on how individuals are affected by societal issues, such as hate, xenophobia, climate change, war, and labor. With a desire to italicize our interconnected nature, I hope that each work brings the real impact of our status quo to the forefront of the viewer's heart.
Artwork Title, Year: kids these days, 2022
Medium: spray paint of canvas
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24" x 36"
Price: $5,000
Artist Bio: eric beal’s work focuses on the individual experience within society-wide struggles against xenophobia, climate change, war, labor, and poverty. Developing his spray painting style through his 20s as a haphazard street artist, eric honed in on canvas-based, stenciled spray paint in 2020 to preserve his message. His practice revolves around contextualizing exaggerated dichotomies in a dialogical approach with the viewer.
eric beal (b. Waco, TX) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Baylor University, and has worked in medical research, communications, and media production, moving from Texas to Tokyo to Los Angeles. He is also the co-founder and producer at The Artscene, a community connecting artists and art-lovers around the world through sharing artists’ stories in the way they want them told with a focus on LA, Paris, and Tokyo.
Artist Statement: I create artwork that highlights societal issues that affect us all at an individual level, focusing on our collective experience to a tumultuous world where everything is political. In my 20s, I developed my love for stencils in their immediacy to transform a utility box into a message with the simple layering of 3 colors. Turning my, now, professional focus towards the political state of the world, I paint didactic scenes highlighting the extremes of our reality. A refugee being met with advancing, armed police. A mangrove growing in the parking lot of a flooded gas station. These are meant to strongly evoke reflection on our trajectory and inspire action.
Nearly all of my work is created in edition. Synthesizing my street art and printmaking background, I want the message of each piece to reach multiple audiences across the globe. Using a general design master, a painting begins with a new stencil, hand drawn and hand cut, that is then destroyed after painting. Any detail in figures is purely a play between the abstract shapes from the layers of paint, relating back to the theme of requiring the observer to see the picture as a whole, rather than its parts.
Politics informs my work on how individuals are affected by societal issues, such as hate, xenophobia, climate change, war, and labor. With a desire to italicize our interconnected nature, I hope that each work brings the real impact of our status quo to the forefront of the viewer's heart.