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things like identity and topics 
like science, technology and 
culture. These are big abstract 
ideas but not necessarily a way 
to address those ideas without 
using an abstract visual lan-
guage.
”

LIFELONG ARTIST
Bean, 38, who defines 
abstract art as liberating, 
started out as a youngster 
with artistry that was more 
representational. As he 
gained experience through 
schooling and displaying, the 
focus moved into abstrac-
tions.
“My first interest is to create 
paintings that are interesting 
to look at,
” he said. “
A certain 
visual beauty is part of making 
any sort of visual art. I want 
to make visual work that is 
compelling, draws people in 
and gets them to do their own 
analysis about what the work 
says to them.
” 
Bean grew up in 
Huntington Woods with 
attention to Judaism expressed 
through experiences at Temple 
Emanu-El in Oak Park and 
Tamarack camping. He 
enjoyed taking a blank piece of 
paper and putting something 
on it, creating something from 
nothing. 
Throughout his school 
years, Bean attended art class-
es. He was briefly in art school 
at the University of Michigan 
but moved into a degree in 
anthropology, eventually using 
some of the symbols in his 
work. Although he didn’t stop 
making art, he quickly realized 
he wanted to learn more about 
the world while making art on 
his own. 
After graduating, Bean 
started to work on paintings 
more and more. With time, he 
decided to pursue a graduate 

degree in art and did that at 
the Pennsylvania Academy of 
Fine Arts, where he met his 
wife.
“It was a very circuitous 
route realizing how important 
making art was for me,
” he 
explained. “But that brought 
me to where I am now.
”
While living in Philadelphia 
and working in the areas of 
memberships and admissions 
in the Philadelphia Museum 
of Art, he showed his work in 
galleries and hotels. He affili-
ated with groups of artists that 
established ways for members 
to exhibit their projects.
More recently, his work 
can be seen on his website 
(justinkingsleybean.com) and 
has been shown at the Detroit 
Artists Market, Hatch Art 
Gallery in Hamtramck and 
the Ann Arbor Art Center. 
It is in the collections of the 
Philadelphia Insurance Co. 
and the Prince Media Co. in 
New York.
“When I moved back to 
Michigan five years ago, I saw 
that the Zekelman Holocaust 
Center was hiring and put in 
my application for a member-
ship development job, which 
built off of what I was doing 
in Philadelphia,
” said Bean, 
who has again affiliated with 
Temple Emanu-El. “It was 
lucky timing they were hiring 
for something I had experi-
ence in, and it all just came 
together.
“I think it’s great that my 
painting was just picked to 
be shown in a government 
building serving an admirable 
purpose. It’s a cross-cultural 
exchange. 
“Even though it’s govern-
mental, it gives government 
the opportunity to show 
something on a much deeper 
level.
” 

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