 |
        Thaddeus Beal (Massachusetts) (see images below) Beal received a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Yale College in 1969 and his Jurus Doctor Degree from Stanford Law School in 1973. After practicing law and serving as Senior Partner at Peabody and Brown (now Nixon-Peabody) in Boston, Massachusetts, he turned to art to satisfy his spiritual and intellectual longings. He completed his studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1989 before dedicating himself to his art. Many of the patterns present in Beal’s work are derived from Islamic architecture where human reference is eliminated in favor of more fundamental forms. These forms led Beal to experiment with various geometries such as Penrose tiling and Peano curves and eventually to incorporate many concepts of Chaos Theory including scaling, fractional dimensions, and strange attractors. He searches for the “life immanent in matter and energy”. He works with many different materials including chalk, roofing tar, polyurethane, and aluminum. He also employs many different processes such as scratching, incising, burning, filling, and sanding. Beal’s exceptional talent is his ability to express the infinite with such subtle, understated force. Beal’s compositions are simultaneously simple and complex. From afar, they often appear muted and misty in tones of grey, tan, pale green and yellow. They exude a consistency and restraint, which belie their true nature. For an array of patterns, shapes, and lines are visible in varying degrees of clarity. One quickly realizes that these are compositions in flux, with elements emerging and fading away right before our eyes. As we move in closer, additional layers of complexity unfold and reveal themselves. We sense that forces are at work here and we wonder how each compositional element is influencing the other. |
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)