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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE - September 28, 2006
Contact: Patrick L. Kelly: (404) 691-8880 ext. 14
Email: pkelly@naesmonline.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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WORDS ARE NOT ENOUGH
The Amazing Works of billy bob beamer
Opening Reception - Friday, October 6, 2006
from 7 PM til 11 PM
All proceeds from this exhibition will go to NAESM - National AIDS
Education & Services for Minorities on behalf of the artist
and his wife, Kathy.
Please join us for a very special charity exhibition that promises
to be a fresh and electrifying exploration into the ways in which
we communicate feeling. Delicate and fragile, the amazing paintings/drawings
of billy bob beamer were begun 30 years ago, as a way of focusing
on sociocultural signs, symbols, and issues of communication. To
date they have grown into a brilliantly complex original non-verbal
language the artist calls "Microinteractive Word Dust"
- beamer refers to his paintings/drawings as "individual messages".
Born 1947 in Roanoke, Virginia; billy bob beamer is a self taught
artist who after growing increasingly ill, was diagnosed with fibromyalgia
and chronic fatigue immune deficiency syndrome. A disease which
leaves it's subjects in constant pain. Exploring possible treatments
for FM/CFIDS, the artist discovered while participating in a biofeedback
program, that he could induce a trance-like state by the act of
repetitive drawing, i.e., my “Messages.”
John Yimin of "Outsider Art" has written that "beamer's
work lies in a world, somewhere between what you see and what you
think."
5 of beamer's paintings were personally requested by NY Arts Magazine
for inclusion at the 2006 Miami/Basil International Art Fair. As
well as New York's annual Pulse-Armory Show. His work can be found
at Gallery 402 (New York), Artshole (London, England), & U*Space
Gallery (Atlanta, Georgia); His work can also be see hanging in
the Governor's Mansion, Richmond, Virginia.
All proceeds from this exhibition will go to NAESM - National AIDS
Education & Services for Minorities on behalf of the artist
and his wife, Kathy.
The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception.
NAESM - (the) National AIDS Education & Services for Minorities
was created in 1990 as a non-profit community based organization
created to counteract the ever increasing spread of HIV/AIDS in
communities of color. Since opening its doors, NAESM has taken pride
in serving Atlanta's minority community as a beacon of hope for
those in need of love and understanding.
The mission of NAESM is to educate communities of color on the facts
about HIV/AIDS (Education and Prevention) and to make health care
and social services available to people of color with early or advanced
stages of HIV/AIDS regardless of their sexual orientation.
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