Solo Exhibition @ Luis De Jesus Gallery, Sept 2016 in Los Angeles
...A techno music festival, surrounded by pulsing music and flashing strobe lights. Piper is trying to figure out who the guy running by in front of her is and suddenly realizes it's Dax, from Berlin. He's the producer of the show and he's with that girl from Iceland, Svava. Why is he hanging out with her?
Transposing the idea of surround sound to the visual realm, Beaucage's new paintings introduce us to a music production crew: American, British, and German electronic musicians and producers, along with ravers, party goers, and vap smokers. The exhibition consists of portraits on paper -- head and shoulders shots and figures in landscapes. Are these presumed impostors, pseudo portraits or counterfeit eccentrics?
Beaucage's loosely painted characters straddle representation and abstraction and oscillate between sincerity and parody. Specks, drips and drops of paint animate hoodies, long coats, eyes, hair and moustaches. Large expressive brushstrokes aroused by carbon black and phtalo turquoise energize the atmosphere. Although the work appears lighthearted it has a foothold in critical approach and philosophy. The characters function as shorthand for a range of philosophical concepts that undergird her strategies: "being with" (Heidegger's mitsein), "presence" and "trace" (Derrida), and "empathy" (Titchener's einfühlung). They are quite congenial and approachable -- if they where real; they're "ultrasocial" (Haidt) and totally free.
Dax, Acrylic on paper, 18"x24", 2016 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Mixer Bruno, Acrylic on paper, 18" x 24", 2016
Cormac Bik Synthpop Musician, Acrylic on paper, 18" x 24", 2016
Producer Bruno B., Acrylic on Paper, 18"x24", 2016
Van, Acrylic on paper, 18"x24", 2016
Sid Chumbly, Acrylic on paper, 48"x18", 2016
Bixby Chumbly, Acrylic on paper, 48"x18", 2016
DJ Ferdy Scholk, Acrylic on paper, 18"x24", 2016
Svava, Acrylic on paper, 18" x 24", 2016
Eddy, Acrylic on paper, 18" x 24", 2016
Cinnamon Lipstick, Acrylic on paper 18" x 24", 2016
Newton Thukpa, Acrylic on paper on linen, 9"x12", 2016 (Private Collection Munich)
Sequencer-Spectrum-Reverb, Acrylic on paper on Linen, 12"x 9", 2016 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Piper Bio Decibel, Acrylic on paper on linen, 9" x 12", 2016 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Rococo WX, Acrylic on paper on linen, 9" x 12", 2016
Janki Guksu, Acrylic on paper on Linen, 9"x12", 2016
Otto In Potsdam, Acrylic on paper on linen, 9" x 12", 2016
Local Fluff, Acrylic on paper on wood panel, 13" x12", 2016 (Private Collection Los Angeles)
Eos & Alderamin, Acrylic on paper on wood paner, 12" x 8 1/4", 2016
Basil & Zeek, Acrylic on paper on wood panel, 9 1/2" x 8 1/2", 2016
Zep, Acrylic on paper on wood panel, 9 1/2 "x 5 3/4", 2016
Superbubble, Acrylic on paper on wood panel, 7 1/2" x 5 1/2", 2016
DanDan, Acrylic on paper on wood panel, 7 "x 5", 2016
Furryfuzz Meister, Acrylic on paper on wood, 7" x 5", 2016