{{Short description|American painter and sculptor (born 1952)}} '''Drew Beattie''' (born 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American painter and sculptor whose earlier work is part of the collaborative team Beattie & Davidson,<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|title=Review/Art Kenny Schachter|newspaper=The New York Times|date=April 22, 1994}}</ref> and later work is characterized by post-kitsch material choices. Since 2013, Beattie has collaborated with the artist Ben Shepard on paintings, works on paper and sculpture.
After Beattie graduated from the Museum School in Boston in 1978, his work was shown in various institutional exhibitions in California and emerging galleries in New York.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|title=Review/Art; For the New Galleries of the 90's, Small (and Cheap) Is Beautiful|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/22/arts/review-art-for-the-new-galleries-of-the-90-s-small-and-cheap-is-beautiful.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|accessdate=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> In 1989 Beattie met the painter Daniel Davidson at Berkeley, while pursuing a teaching post.<ref>{{cite news|last=Upshaw|first=Reagan|title=Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson at Joseph Helman|newspaper=Art in America|date=September 1996}}</ref> Lawrence Rinder wrote: “In the summer of 1989 Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson decided to try making a painting together. Impressed with the results, they continued working in tandem in...a "private laboratory."<ref>{{cite web|last=Humphrey|first=David|title=Drew Beattie and Daniel Davidson / MATRIX 164|url=http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/164|publisher=University of California Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Humphrey|first=David|title=Blind Handshake|year=2009|publisher=Periscope Publishing}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Multiple Authors|first=David Humphrey|title=MATRIX / Berkeley: A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art|year=2009|publisher=University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive|location=Berkeley, CA|pages=164–167}}</ref> They were known for having a "single imagination" and a highly prolific, laboratory or factory-like experimental practice. The pair gained representation with Joseph Helman Gallery on 57th Street in New York <ref>{{cite web|last=Servetar|first=Stuart|title=Nu-Glu at Joseph Helman|url=http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/servitar/nuglu.asp|publisher=Artnet.com Magazine|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Glueck|first=Grace|title=Beattie & Davidson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/14/arts/art-in-review-129542.html|accessdate=10 December 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 14, 1997}}</ref> after a residency at the American Academy in Rome<ref>{{cite book|last=Sokolowski|first=Tom|title=Of Traces and Tracing, Views from a Golden Hill: Contemporary Artists and the American Academy in Rome|date=March 1996|publisher=American Academy in Rome|location=New York, Rome}}</ref> where Beattie later served as president of the Society of Fellows from 2009 to 2014.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kisner|first=Jordan|title=A Week at Rome's American Academy|url=http://www.departures.com/articles/a-week-at-romes-american-academy|publisher=Departures|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|editor=SOF Weblog|title=A new SOF President for 2009: painter Drew Beattie FAAR'95|url=http://sofaarome.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/a-new-sof-president-for-2009-painter-drew-beattie-faar’95/|accessdate=10 December 2013|newspaper=The American Academy Society of Fellows Blog|date=20 May 2009 }}</ref>
By the late nineties the Beattie & Davidson collaboration ended, and Beattie's work assumed a different tenor as grids and hexagonal patterns of colored shapes began to disappear from his paintings. There was also a gradual transition into highly dimensional painting and post-kitsch sculptural practices, which have been the subject of many reviews and acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bors|first=Chris|title=Drew Beattie: Hansel und (sic) Gretel Picture Garden|url=http://www.artillerymag.com/archives/v6i4/mini-reviews/entry.php?id=drew-beattie-hansel-und-gretel-picture-garden|publisher=Artillery Magazine|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Coman|first=Sonia|title=The Jewel Box Review at Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden|url=http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=14163|publisher=New York Arts Magazine|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref> Since his intensified solo practice he has held posts at some of the major art programs in the United States including Harvard, UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago, Cooper Union, and Hunter College.
Beattie's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery, The Drawing Center,<ref>{{cite news|title=Group Show|newspaper=The New Yorker|date=March 22, 1993}}</ref> the Brooklyn Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, PS1, the High Museum of Art Atlanta, and many others.
Beattie's 2012 exhibition at Hansel and Gretel Picture Garden, "My Cookie"<ref>{{cite web|last=Bors|first=Chris|title=Drew Beattie: Hansel und Gretel Picture Garden|url=http://www.artillerymag.com/archives/v6i4/mini-reviews/entry.php?id=drew-beattie-hansel-und-gretel-picture-garden|publisher=Artillery Magazine|accessdate=10 December 2013}}</ref> was the first in which his sculpture appeared publicly.
Since 2013, Beattie has been working with Ben Shepard. Their work has been shown in Brooklyn at [https://storefrontteneyck.tumblr.com/post/120121902726/drew-beattie-and-ben-shepard-dbbs-storefront Storefront Ten Eyck], and [https://www.thechimneynyc.com/exhibition-2015-drew-beattie-ben-sheppard-purple-cycle-one The Chimney.] In 2018, a show of DBBS works on papers "Office Riot" appeared in Konstanz and Frankfurt at [https://www.thechimneynyc.com/exhibition-2015-drew-beattie-ben-sheppard-purple-cycle-one Lachenmann Gallery.]
== References == {{reflist}}
== Books == * Rinder, Lawrence. "Drew Beattie & Daniel Davidson, Matrix / Berkeley, Twenty Years 1978-1998". Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Art Museum, 1998. * Humphrey, David. "Weedy Snowball: David Humphrey Talks with Beattie & Davidson, Beattie & Davidson". Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1998. * Rinder, Lawrence. “Beattie & Davidson". Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1998.
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