Jeff Beall creates conceptually driven work that consistently uses techniques of veiling/revealing to heighten the experience of seeing. Subject matter in recent years has included a memorial to lives lost in the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, watercolor flowers, and encryption technology.
Beall was also co-publisher of X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal for 20 years, and served as Founder and Chair of Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism, the nonprofit organization created in 2002 to support X-TRA, until stepping down from that role in 2022.
Contact: jeffrbeall@gmail.com
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Jeff Beall
Santa Monica, CA
Education
MFA 1987, California Institute of the Arts
BFA 1986, California Institute of the Arts
BA in Architecture 1983, University of California at Berkeley
Solo Exhibitions
2017
Unsolved: 1992 LA Uprising @ 25 Years
Gallery 169, Santa Monica
2009
Mori Sushi, Santa Monica
2007
Encryption Painting
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
[Essay by Ellen Birrell from Angles Gallery exhibition catalog.]
1994
Empty Pleasures
AMO Amanda Obering Gallery, Los Angeles
1991
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
1990
Terrain, San Francisco
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Arch Lunar Art Archive
An exhibition of contemporary art, located on the surface of the Moon.
Organized by Ian Stanton for the Arch Mission Foundation.
2022
(RE)IMAGINING HOME: On Care for Our Common Home
18th Street Arts Center | Airport Campus, Santa Monica, CA
2020
Drive-By-Art Show (Public Art In This Moment of Social Distancing)
Curated by Warren Neidich, Renee Petropolous, Michael Slenske & Anuradha Vikram
Los Angeles, CA
2 DAY
LSH CoLAB, Los Angeles, CA (Curated by Rory Devine)
2011
Earth and Sky (Curated by Mara Lonner)
Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Hi Res / Lo Res
Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2002
The Great Silence
Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Recent Acquisitions
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Defining the Sublime
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1999
Warmer Still
Videoland, New York
1996
Ether
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
A Selection of Classics
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1995
Smells Like Vinyl
Roger Merians Gallery, New York
1994
Constructed Views
Woodbury University Art Gallery, Burbank, CA
Where We Live
AMO, Amanda Obering Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Installations
The Drawing Center, New York
Serial
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
1993
Introductions ’93
Haines Gallery, San Francisco
1992
New Evidence: Recent Art & the Photograph
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1991
Rene Pierre Allain/Jeff Beall/Robert Dean
Gallery Moos, Toronto
The Chapman Market Show
Chapman Market, 3465 West 6th Street, Los Angeles
Five Day Group Show
Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
1990
No Trends
Nahan Contemporary, New York
1989
I to Eye
Cirrus, Los Angeles
Logical Conclusion
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles
Disappearances
Nahan Contemporary, New York
Uta Barth/Jeff Beall/Paul Boettcher
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica
1989
Los Angeles Current Abstract Painting
Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
21 Artists
Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
Breaking Through the Looking Glass: West
Curated by Thomas B. Solomon
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
Breaking Through the Looking Glass: East
Curated by Thomas B. Solomon
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1984
All California ‘84
Curated by Henry Hopkins
Laguna Beach Museum of Art
Other Projects
2002–2022
Founding Chair of Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism (501c3 nonprofit organization)
2002–2022
Co-Publisher of X-TRA
X-TRA is a quarterly journal of contemporary art, published in Los Angeles by Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism.
1994
Oostende 1994
Contributed a musical piece entitled “Für EliseX3” for Oostende 1994, a two-cd set of musical and spoken-word performances by Los Angeles visual artists, produced by Louis Gutierrez & Gretchen Seager and released on Bigg Truck Records.
1989
LOADED
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
Co-curated with Tony Greene, LOADED was a group show of eighteen artists and writers, whose works dealt with “the placement of the body a the end of the twentieth century.”
Selected Bibliography
- Halle Hazzard, Jesse Mechanic, Mallika Singh & Vaishnavi Vasudevan, “Echoes of the Uprising (Reflections of the LA Uprising),” LA Times, April 29, 2022
- Martinez, Christina C., “Signs Are Everywhere,” ARTFORUM Diary, June 10, 2020 (Photograph)
- Miranda, Carolina, “Of the 63 people killed during ’92 riots, 23 deaths remain unsolved—Artist Jeff Beall is mapping where they fell,” Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2017.
- Cohen, Michael, “L.A. Confidential,” FlashArt, May-June, 1995,
- Freyberger, H.C., “The Drawing Center,” June Wind Magazine (Japanese), January 1995
- Levin, “Art,” The Village Voice (New York), October 4, 1994
- Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, September 23, 1994
- Caniglia, Julie, review of “Oostende 1994,” City Pages (Minneapolis), May 4, 1994
- “Oostende 1994,” “How much do you weigh, Andy?” Print Collector’s Newsletter, May-June 1994
- Bonetti, David, “Still Life, New Life at ‘Introductions’,” San Francisco Examiner, July 16, 1993
- Taylor, Kate, “ART ABOUT,” The Globe and Mail (Toronto), August 2, 1991
- Michaels, Donna, “Artists Worth Watching,” ART-TALK, April/May 1990
- Kandel, Susan, “L.A. in Review,” ARTS Magazine, November 1989
- Gimelson, Deborah, “CA Conceptual,” Art & Auction, November 1989
- Clearwater, Bonnie, “Los Angeles: It’s Happening at Home,” The Journal of Art, September/October, 1989
- Knight, Christopher, “Loaded,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, August 4, 1989
- Knight, Christopher, “Narrative Puzzle to Please Eye: Quartet of Artists Sparkle in Show,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, June 23, 1989
- Clearwater, Bonnie, “Our Gang,” Visions, Summer 1989
- Spiegel, Judith, “Current Abstract Painting,” Art issues, Summer 1989
- French, Christopher, “La La Land Goes Legitimate,” The Journal of Art, April 1989
- Acello, Richard, “Art Students ‘Decode’ Advertising’s Illusion/Myth,” LA Downtown News, June 3, 1985
Catalogs
- “Encryption Paintings”
- “Disappearances”
- “LOADED”
Collections
- Alan Baron, New York
- Miriam Bensimohn, New York
- Paul Boettcher, Los Angeles
- Tom Bonauro, San Francisco
- Chipper Boulas & Isabelle Fevrier, New York
- Rainer Crone, Munich
- Continental Corporation, Cranbury, New Jersey
- Tim Ebner, Los Angeles
- Fred Fehlau, Cape Cod
- Dorothy Goldeen, Santa Monica
- Glen Edward, Santa Ana
- Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles
- Gerard Jennings, Toronto
- Susan Landau, Los Angeles
- Daniel Melnick, Los Angeles
- David Moos, New York
- Peter Norton, New York
- Todd Oldham, New York
- Luciano Perna, Los Angeles
- Alan Power, Santa Monica
- James Reinish, New York
- Wolfram Rottzieper, Remscheid, Germany
- Gretchen Seager, Los Angeles
- Sarah Seager, Los Angeles
- Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles
- Linda Stark, Los Angeles
- Nancy Solomon, New York
- Mitchell Syrop, Los Angeles
- Horst von den Steinen, West Germany
- Joel Shine, Santa Monica
- Jennifer Tilly, Los Angeles
- Harrison White & Patrick Killian, Los Angeles
- Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax
- Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
- Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
- Laguna Art Museum , Laguna Beach, CA
- Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
- Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
- Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon