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Summary of Performances
Managing Member Art and Business Consulting LLC: 2006-Present.
Doing business as AKAJake, Renaissance Woman: 1996-Present
Strategic volunteer for artlink, Inc.: 2004
Board Member and President of artlink, Inc.: 2002-2003
Nuclear Physicist and Graduate Slave: 1993-1996
Clueless Undergraduate: 1988-1993
Electronics Wizard, Mountain Climber and Frustrated Artist: 1981-1988
Globetrotting Military Brat and Clueless Artist: -1981
Travels
Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia,
Spain, Switzerland, and USA
Grants
GAANN Fellowship 1993
GAANN Fellowship 1994
Education
MS Nuclear Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1996
BS Physics, ASU Tempe, AZ 1993
Barrett Honors College Graduate, ASU 1993
Self-realized Artist.
Affiliations
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
Sunnyslope Art Walk, Dunlap & Central Ave, Phoenix AZ April 14, 2012
#TwitterArtExhibit, Moss Public Library, Moss, Norway April-May 2012
Binary Birds, Gallery Hazel, Phoenix AZ January & February 2012
MOB Reunion Tour, Seven13Sk8, Phoenix, AZ December 2011
Trees for Life, Out of the Blue Studios, Edinburg Scotland, November 2011
48th Annual Glendale Art Council Juried Fine Arts Competition, Sahuaro Ranch Park
Glendale, AZ January-February 2011
#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.
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