initially painted nudes before more recently using her work to explore
what we wear as a cultural touchstone. It was 2015 when she came
across London-based designer J.W. Anderson online, and he proved
to be one of her early fashion muses.
After dressing a nude in a striped piece from the J.W. Anderson
Resort collection, she caught the label's eye on Instagram. The result:
commissioned illustrations for Anderson at both his own label and at
Loewe, where he serves as creative director, followed by a handful of
fashion brands as well as The New York Times and Vogue Korea.
"I am more inspired by the way that people use fashion than
fashion itself," says Beeman, who studied sociology before becoming
an artist. "Clothing can be very expressive and has the potential to
emphasize certain qualities in my subjects: It can also be celebratory
or ceremonious, it can mark an occasion, it can give a sense of
Kelly Beeman's Dancer Reading the
News with a Guard Dog, 2017.
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