Artist: Allan Bealy (Canada - United States)
Title: BARRY
Date: 2019
Medium: Analog collage on vintage book cover with transfer
Dimensions: 6 x 9 inches
Acquisition Date: 2019
Credit: Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection
©Allan Bealy

BARRY is a small work created on vintage book cover, that is a direct, intuitive response to my experience dealing with a tropical storm in New Orleans, summer 2019. While the head had already been placed on the cover and left unfinished before my aborted trip to NOLA, the grey mass and swirling body parts were quickly added afterwords and accurately suggests my mood and angst at the time. 

ALLAN BEALY is a Canadian artist living and working in New York. He was a member of Vehicule Art, the Montreal cooperative art and performance space in the ‘70s and has had solo shows in Montreal, New York and Sweden, as well as being represented in numerous group shows. Bealy published the pocket arts journal DaVinci in Montreal and Benzene, an arts magazine, after moving to New York in the ‘80s. He has spent the last 30 years as a graphic designer and advertising art director and associate creative director, from which he has recently retired.

His art practice now focuses on collage and mixed media as well as continuing to publish, occasionally, under the Benzene Editions banner. His book of collages, Le Reve, has just been published by Redfoxpress in Ireland. He lives with his wife and two sons in Brooklyn.