beinArt International Surreal Art Collective Group Exhibition “Metamorphosis” at CoproGallery.

Guest Curator: Jon Beinart.

Opening Reception, Saturday, June 5 – 8:00 – 11:30 p.m.

Exhibit runs; June 5 – June 26, 2010.

‘Metamorphosis’ will present the work of over 50 international artists, many who have never shown their work in California or the USA, along with a number of well known artists who have.

Participating Artists: Ron English, Shawn Barber, Chris Mars, Chet Zar, David Stoupakis, Viktor Safonkin, David Bowers, Peter Gric, Dariusz Zawadzki, Karl Persson, Ray Donley, Heidi Taillefer, David Choquette, Fred Einaudi, Carrie Ann Baade, Laurie Lipton, Paul Rumsey, Jon Jaylo, Brian Viveros, Dan Quintana, Heather Nevay, James Zar, William B Hand, Katherine Blackwell, Jason John, Artur Golacki, Mikel Glass, Isabel Peppard, Mark Powell, Lily Mae Martin, Beau White, Joseph Larkin , Scott Musgrove, Chrystal Chan, Matt Martin, Jason Jacenko, Vincent Castiglia, Saturno Butto, Stephanie Henderson, Alex Garcia, J L Robbins, Leslie Ditto, Christian van minnen, Jon Beinart, Andy B Clarkson, Jeff Christensen, Luis Lorenzana & more.

Each artist has been chosen for their ability to express themselves imaginatively with exceptional technique and un compromised individuality. The works will cover many themes that are central to the human experience portrayed with a surreal, dreamlike and often nightmarish aesthetic.

‘Metamorphosis’ will be testimony to a huge international movement of figurative artists who have resisted current trends in the art world and remained true to their artistic vision.

CoproGallery

Bergamot Station

2525 Michigan Ave, Unit T5,

Santa Monica, CA 90404, USA.

Ph: 310/829-2156

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New book available in the beinArt Online Shop:

‘Imagine The Imagination’

This book aims to show the variety of contemporary surreal art including almost 100 works in different media: traditional painting and drawing, digital painting, fractals, photo-manipulation, photography, mixed media, sculpture, traditional prints, and more. The collection will be classified in 3 groups: Visions, Dreams and Nightmares, all this mental manifestation has been the source of inspiration for this revolutionary movement since the 1920s. The mind gates are open to explore the deepest of the subconscious in this visual dialogue with the “other”, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought.

Including Reinhard Schmid, Amy Kollar Anderson, Arif Bahtiar, Steve Smith, Bogdan Zwir, Janelle McKain, Bernard Dumaine, NoMe Edonna, Alessandro Fantini, Robert Steven Connett, David Whitlam, Kris Kuksi, Joe MacGown, Otto Rapp, Leo Plaw, Deborah Valentine, Miguel Tio, Adam Scott Miller, Tassos Kouris, Dariusz Skitek, Pete Hamilton, Suzzan Blac, Renaldo Renaldo (Rens Ink), Pedro De Kastro, Jon Beinart, Joseph Larkin, Ben Tolman, Ton Haring and many more.

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I was recently interviewed by Lana Gentry and I was so happy with her approach that I invited Lana to interview artists in the beinArt Collective. I interviewed a number of artists for the site a long time ago and decided to stop since I was running out of energy for it… I was already too involved with publishing art books and running the website… Since then I’ve been looking out for an interviewer and Lana has agreed to give it a go… So more artist interviews will be published on the beinArt blog soon. Happy days!

Here’s a link to Lana’s Interview with me.

I hope you enjoy!

Jon Beinart

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After a long time in planing, the Surreal Art Forum has now been integrated with beinArt.org.

The forum is now using the latest version of PHPBB, version 3. There are many new
features to explore on the forum. For example, members can now upload
attachments to their posts. This means that user's images will be hosted on the forum itself. It is now also possible to display flash objects in forum posts.

The forum has also been graphically restyled to match the look of beinArt.org.

Another major addition to the site this year was beinArt.org shop, with full shopping cart features. This was necessary with the latest edition to the Metamorphosis – Fantastic and Visionary Artists book series. Books and limited edition prints from artists featured on this site are also available.

Jon Beinart and Leo Plaw are planning and preparing a number of other changes and additions to the site. Leo Plaw is responsible for design and programming of beinArt.org.

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As most of you have probably noticed, we have added Google Ads to beinArt.org

The web presence and popularity of the Surreal Art Collective has grown rapidly since our launch in 2006, which has had a massive impact on our server. Recently beinArt.org began to drop offline sporadically for sustained periods of time due to the excessive use of bandwidth and server RAM. We were forced to upgrade our hosting package in order to ensure the optimal functioning of the website.

It has always been my mission to keep beinArt.org ad-free, but sadly this is no longer feasible due to the ongoing costs of keeping our website online.

Thank you all for your continued support and helping make beinArt.org a success!

Best regards,

Jon Beinart  

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