VES 10x: Drawing Mind and Matter
VES 25: Non-observational Painting
VES 112: Hybrid Drawing
VES 129: Painting Post 2000

Sad Man Wants to Talk, 2005, oil, spray paint, rubber, insulating foam, bondo, collage, foamcore, and acrylic on canvas, 14.5 x 11.5 in.

Beattie received his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Tufts University. Working independently or in the collaborative team Beattie & Davidson (1989–1998), Beattie’s paintings and drawings look for meaning through hybridized fusions of imagery and abstraction. Numerous solo exhibitions include gescheidle, Chicago; Stephen Wirtz, San Francisco; Track 16, Los Angeles; Joseph Helman, New York; White Columns, New York; MATRIX/University Art Museum, Berkeley; Germans van Eck, New York; and Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco. Group exhibitions include Arts Club, gescheidle, Chicago, 2007; Psycho Ideology, 2006; Terrible Beauty, 2003; Afflicted, 2002; Dystopia, Roebling Hall, New York, 1999; Life and Limb, Feigen Contemporary, New York, 2005; Artist to Artist, Ace Gallery, New York, 2002; Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2001; In the Flow: Alternate Authoring Strategies, Franklin Furnace, New York, 1996; Transfers, Exit Art, New York, 1995; PS1 Studio Artists, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, 1994; I Could Do That, Pre-Existing Condition, Kenny Schachter, New York, 1994; Can You Always Believe Your Eyes, De Beyerd centrum voor beeldende kunst, Breda, The Netherlands, 1994; 43rd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC, 1993; Selections/Spring ‘93, the Drawing Center, New York, 1993. Collections include the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco. Beattie is the recipient of the Rome Prize in Visual Arts from the American Academy in Rome, studio grants from PS1 and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, and the Eureka Fellowship in painting from the Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco.