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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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