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Gallery Of Paitings By Akira Beard - Usa
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Akira Beard - USA
Making pictures is one of the earliest memories I recall.
Before learning to write the alphabet I was drawing from my imagination in crayons.
And over all the years that followed, there has never been a period where I didn’t continue the practice.
I remember for example just after graduating high school and living on my own as a dishwasher with no ambitions in life but to get drunk and high.
But when the party was over I would be in the kitchen of a house I didn’t live in, drawing past dawn.
Or even when I was a student at the University of California Berkeley, on my way towards a corporate life, having never conceived even the possibility where art could be a profession, I filled my notebooks not with words from lectures, but with sketches of teachers and classmates.
And though later I would become a ‘professional artist’, I sometimes look back at such moments if confused with the roots of my creativity.
It started purely as an act of autonomy, where nothing outside myself influenced or affected it. I simply drew because I enjoyed it above all else.
Sure, like anyone I’ve had plenty of typical life experiences that have brought their own joy, but nothing compares in consistency and meaningfullness that making art has provided. Even during those unavoidable periods with living that challenge us most, drastic life change/loss/death, art has functioned as a medium with giving meaning to suffering, transforming it into an experience with healing.
This I hope, begins to describe the art I make.
The drawings and paintings you see on this site, are similar to snapshots with the lens pointed in Life's direction with penetrating force.
I hope you enjoy any of what's reflected back. Thanks for visiting.
Education
2004 Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA. BFA Painting and Drawing.
1998-99 University of California, Berkeley. BA Japanese (incomplete)
1998 Sacramento City College, Sacramento, CA. AS General Social Science
Teaching Experience
2011-2013 Fine Art Anatomy Instructor, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2010-2012 Fashion Illustration Instructor, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
2009-2015 Artist Instructor, Art With Elders (Not for Profit Organization), San Francisco, CA.
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