Masque

Artist: Allan Bealy (Canada - United States)
Title: Masque
Date: 2018
Medium: Analog collage and image transfer created over a distressed page from the previous issue of the magazine
Dimensions: 10 x 8 inches
Publication History: Cut Me Up, Issue 02: Inside Out, winter 2019, John Whitlock, Curator, Editor and Founder: Andrea Burgay
Acquisition Date: 2019
Credit: Doug and Laurie Kanyer Art Collection
©Allan Bealy

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.