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ALBERT BEACH works in his printmaking/painting studio in the Silver Lake District of Los Angeles. He teaches printmaking and figure drawing at Mount St. Mary’s College in Brentwood. During the months of May through October he lives and works in Benabbio, Bagni di Lucca, Italy where he also maintains a printmaking/painting studio.
Since the early 1960s Albert has worked as an art student and artist. Over the years he has studied with many talented artists and earned a bachelors and masters degree in art (MFA University of Colorado). He has had one person exhibits at Jersey City State College, N.J., Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, California and at Mount St. Mary’s College, Brentwood. He has participated in many two-person and group shows throughout his career.
In the realm of commercial work he has produced extensive editions and suites of prints for the Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, The Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach, and The Mission Inn, Riverside, California (see montypes).
His paintings are informed by the patterning and overlapping which come naturally to a printmaker, and the prints are likewise influenced by a painterly quality. Albert works in acrylic, oil and watercolor. In the print studio he uses traditional intaglio techniques to produce multiple plate color etchings. He also produces large groups of monotypes, which are often the inspiration for the etchings. The imagery, by and large, is of urban and suburban architecture from Los Angeles and Europe. Of late he has begun a series of images dealing with fanciful interiors.
Albert Beach lives and works in Los Angeles and Benabbio, Bagni di Lucca, Italy
EDUCATION
1977 M. F. A., University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1969 B. F. A., University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004 José-Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mt. St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California
2002 Newport Beach Public Library, Newport Beach, California
2002,1999,1994: Art Gallery, Unitarian Church of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, California
1993 and 1991: Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, California
1989 Jersey City State College, Jersey City, New Jersey
1985 Permanent Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 Design Center, Los Angeles, California
1977 University of Colorado Fine Arts Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2005 Looking At Art Los Angeles World Airports Exhibition, 2005
2003 Songolo Gallery, Idyllwild, California
2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1999 Bagni di Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
1998 The Tire Shop Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina
1997 School for Color Etching, Barga, Italy
1997 Mount Saint Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California
1995 Millard Sheets Gallery, Multiple Impressions, Pomona, California
1993 Hot off the Press, Santa Monica, California
1993 Ink and Clay, Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, California
1991 Gene Sinsor Gallery, Los Angeles, California (2 person)
1984 L. A. Printmaking Society, Brand Library, Glendale, California
1983 University of Colorado Prints and Paperworks, Boulder, Colorado
1982 Brea Municipal Gallery, Brea, California
1981 Los Angeles Bicentennial Exhibition, North Hills, California
1979 Potsdam National Drawing Exhibition, Potsdam, New York
1978 Chapman College Print and Drawing Exhibition, Orange, California
1977 Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1976 Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, New Jersey
1969 University of Arizona Educational Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
COLLECTIONS and COMMISSIONS
James Jones Collection, Cal Poly University, Pomona, California
Beverly Hills Library, Beverly Hills, California
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills, California
Balboa Bay Club, Newport Beach,Californi