Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paintings. Show all posts

Sunday, April 24, 2022

NFT free giveaway and contest***

New "NFTS are not ART" #NFT by Beau Tardy
Exclusively Available on Teia.art
NFTS are not ART ©Beau Tardy, Artist 2022. 
Another Pop Media Art Quantum by Beau Tardy, Artist created entirely by technology. 
100 tokens generated. 1 special grand prize token. 10 free tokens. This NFT was created entirely using A.I. Animated gifs made with TextStudio https://www.fakemusicgenerator.com/
Music made with Fake Music Generator https://www.textstudio.co/

Exclusive NFT free giveaway and contest. "NFTS are not ART" by Beau Tardy is available on Teia.art for only 2 Tezos (approximately = $6.00). Edition of 100 of this NFT have been minted with only a limited number still available. Every owner will have access to a downloadable .mp4 with music and animation. Gif will play on all screens. 
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There is no more Art. There is only Technology. I am the new Art Scientist.

Free giveaway: 10 free "NFTS are not ART" tokens will be given away.  To receive a free NFT, follow @DizzyTV on Twitter and @Tardyartist on Instagram. Then leave a comment below explaining what the statement: "There is no more Art. There is only Technology." means for you. Only the first 10 to complete all steps will win a free "NFTS are not ART" NFT by Beau Tardy.

Contest rules: 1 grand prize winner will be picked at random from all owners of the NFT using random list generator from https://www.random.org/lists/. The grand prize is an original painting by Beau Tardy, Artist entitled "HIGH".
"HIGH" original painting by Beau Tardy, Artist.
Acrylic, spraypaint and gold paint on canvas 30x24".
Currently valued at $300 >click here<

*note: The grand prize will only be drawn when at least 50% of tokens have been sold.   

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Miniatures ~ Wood Panels Acrylic and Gold Metal Paint *sold*

Acrylic & Gold Metal on Wood Panel 10"x10" by Beau Tardy Artist, 2019.
After going through a little bit of a burn out, I produced these nice miniature wood panels. I have always been fascinated by Medieval art. Nice 10"x10" panels, carefully prepared and painted with acrylic and gold metallic paint. Varnished and mounted, ready to hang.
Acrylic & Gold Metal on Wood Panel 10"x10" by Beau Tardy Artist, 2019.

They were featured in the 10x10" Art Show 2019 at Hardy & Nance in January. 

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Hardy & Nance Studios Gallery


"Smurf 5 *" Work on paper, Rustoleum spray paint. Framed 24" x 24"  ***sold! 
*SOLD* This piece was featured in the 'Anything Goes Vol2' show at Hardy & Nance Studios on July 21st. The gallery is in a post-industrial location that is perfect for second wave post-urban neo-graffiti art. 
Hardy & Nance Studios. My kind of gallery! 

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Painting Auctioned for Ronald McDonald House

Papa Smurf Dope McDonalds - ©2018 Beau Tardy Artist
Mixed media & acrylic paint on board.

At Comicpalooza this year, artists were picked to auction off their work to raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House Charities which provide shelter, support and resources to families who travel far from home for the medical care their child needs. The art was made live on site during a two hour period and then auctioned off. Here is my entry that was snapped up by a lucky collector.

Thursday, March 15, 2018

My Wimpy Painting for a Houston Heights Restaurant was Stolen!

What a crazy story! In February I painted this piece for Balls Out Burgers a restaurant in Houston Heights and it was stolen from the restaurant along with the cash register!
Wimpy by Beau Tardy ©2018
The painting was mixed media acrylic, spray paint with stencils on paper 24"x30". After framing it and delivering it I heard nothing back from Balls Out Burgers. When I had delivered the painting I got a weird vibe from the guy who I handed it to. I was told he was the manager but he just kinda took the painting without even saying thanks! Anyway, after a month with no news I emailed them to see if they even liked the painting. The response was that the painting had been stolen! Apparently someone made off with a bunch of money and the painting. How crazy is that? The nice people from customer service said they did not know that nobody had contacted me to say thanks. They offered me free burgers too, which I will gladly accept.

Monday, December 11, 2017

Prints now available.

High-end gallery quality prints are now available of selected works.


High-end gallery print on art quality acid free cotton rag paper. 
Image size 8"x10". Signed and framed $50 (+ shipping).
*watermark and digital signature do not appear on original print*
"FLATS" ©2018 Beau Tardy. High end digital art print.
All rights reserved, no reproduction allowed.



High quality large print on canvas, mat finish. Image size 17" x 22".
Signed and dated. Unframed. Shipped rolled. $100 (+ shipping)
*watermark and digital signature do not appear on original print*
'Paris' ©2018 Beau Tardy. High-end digital art print on canvas. All rights reserved, no reproduction allowed.




Monday, November 13, 2017

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Vox Culture Art Mixer at Axelrad Beer Garden

Outdoor event public art show, Thursday Oct 5, 2017 
organized by Vox Culture at Axelrad Beer Garden, Houston. 
Sold paintings, prints and books. 

For inquiries about artwork, prints and books please contact me at beautardy(at)usa.net.

Saturday, August 5, 2017

'HIGH' original canvas on sale for only $500 (+shipping)

HIGH 30"X 24"/ SPRAY PAINT & ACRYLIC ON CANVAS/ GLOSS FINISH
I am putting this great canvas up for sale because I need to raise money quickly. This 30x24 canvas is finished with several layers of gloss varnish and just shines. Original spray paint, metallic paint and acrylic featuring hand-cut stencil of Papa Smurf. This is a gem and I want it to go to a collector who will appreciate it. Was featured in the Paris, America show at Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans in 2016.





Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Paris, America Opening Feb. 13 Barrister's Gallery


Paris born American artist Beau Tardy will present new work at Barrister's Gallery for the opening of Paris, America. He will premiere new paintings, a video installation, drawings and a new book. As part of the group show French artists Louis J. Gore, Sebastien Birchler, Cyr Boitard along with Australian Mara Marich will be showing paintings, prints and sculpture.

'Dope' by Beau Tardy. Spraypaint, acrylic, stencil on canvas.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

Ink is thicker than blood.

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For an American audience, Charlie Hebdo is like a crossover between Mad Magazine and underground comix from the 60s, full of satire and sex. It’s as if Robert Crumb and Jon Stewart had just been gunned down during a board meeting at Comedy Central.


I lived in France and read Charlie Hebdo throughout my teens. So I am using the hashtags #JeSuisCharlie #IAmCharlieHebdo to show my support for fellow cartoonists and express my utter sadness at their brutal murders.


However this hashtag, while well intentioned, is misleading. For if everyone is ‘Charlie Hebdo’ then everyone is a victim, which is exactly what the terrorists want. But if ‘being Charlie’ means having the guts to stand up to censorship in ALL its forms, including having the right to poke islamic fanaticism in the eye, then I’m all for it. Unfortunately, I feel the opposite is beginning to happen.


London imam Anjem Choudary correctly said in defense of the Paris shootings: “If freedom of expression can be sacrificed for criminalising incitement & hatred, Why not for insulting the Prophet of Allah? #ParisShooting — Anjem Choudary (@anjemchoudary)”


His ironclad logic is unassailable in this world of political correctness and ‘tolerance’. When you outlaw ONE WORD, you potentially outlaw them all. When freedom of expression, WHATEVER IT MAY BE gets threatened, freedom of thought gets censored too.


People are already being jailed for saying something stupid on Facebook or posting videos. Professionals are being fired for their political or religious views. ‘Hate speech’ is a criminal offense. But who gets to determine what qualifies as hate speech? Does Anjem Choudary get to make that call? And if not, why not?


If it is NOT OK to use certain words, whichever they may be, whatever the context, then censorship has already begun. Cartoonists, writers, artists, thinkers will begin to self-censure in the name of tolerance to disguise their fear. This is already happening.


Certain thoughts and opinions become taboo and mental repression sets in, whether it be coerced or self-inflicted. History is littered with entire civilizations being brainwashed this way, ie: Nazism or Communism. This is not something new.


What is new is that our generation, from the mid 20th century until now, has never had to face a true war on the Western homeland. We have enjoyed over 65 years of peace, with no major disruption to our modern way of life.


It felt natural for me as a kid and a teenager to dream of becoming a professional cartoonist. In fact, I have based my whole life on believing that being an artist was a valid, useful and worthwhile profession. I went to art school, got jobs doing illustrations, TV graphics, magazine layouts, paintings, video installations, music concerts and my childhood dream: cartoons. Even though I have had to navigate economic ups and downs, I always believed being an artist was a good thing.


Now art has been weaponized. Artists are at the forefront of a cultural war.


Every artist is going to ask themselves if their art will offend. Some will seek out controversy as a shortcut to publicity but most others cower away and end up erasing their ‘provocative’ drawings. The net effect, I fear in the long run will be that fewer and fewer people will stand up for those who are genuine champions of free speech, like Charlie Hebdo.


So while it’s great to say #IAmCharlieHebdo, especially when everyone else is doing it, who will in the end be bold enough to risk everything to say something that is politically incorrect, or offensive to some, or ‘hate speech’?


I am an artist and I can’t answer that question.


Beau Tardy

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

New Orleans Art Insider: LaPopSexTVArtShow at Barrister's

Sunday, May 26, 2013
LaPopSexTVArtShow at Barrister's

Got Cha by Beau Tardy.

The Claude Arts District is often considered a post-Katrina phenomenon--and it mostly is--but this show illustrates how deep the experimental Marigny-Bywater art scene's roots really are. Curated by Beau Tardy and Michael Fedor, themselves veterans of Fedor's former (1987--1990) Marigny-based Galerie Avant Gout, it also includes works by Patti D'Amico and William Warren whose Waiting Room Gallery in Bywater was active from 1997 to 2008. Both spaces catered to emerging artists, a tone that continues in this show. Tardy, who worked for MTV in New York for years, was inspired by mass media's fixation on erotic titillation as seen in GotCha, (left) a manipulated image of a babe in a vortex of flashy graphics like those TV ads that somehow inspire salacious thoughts based on nothing more than subliminal suggestion. The paintings by French counterpart Louis Jean Gorry are far more graphic, but his style is as raw as scrawled subway station graffiti. Somehow slick is more insidious. But fellow Frenchie Cyr Boitard, (left) takes a more romantic turn in his Proustian evocation of the soft porn of the past in images like an updated Toulouse Lautrec hashish fantasy.

Michael Fedor's intricately surreal collages such as Goliath, suggest something an absinthe-inspired French Quarter Max Ernst might have created in a dark corner of the Napoleon House in the lost days of yore, a sensibility complemented by Patti D'Amico's mystically tinged canvas The Medium, among others. In 2008, she and partner Warren moved to Water Valley, MS, where the omnipresent kudzu inspired him to paint humanoid vine critters like Kudzu Blues Man, a wavy gravy exercise in animist pointillism in the form of a vinous Delta musician. Throw in Margaret Meinzer's adjacent expo of pop-expressionist dreamscapes like A Small Boat at Sea and it's a weirdly wonderful show in the grand St. Claude tradition of ad hoc epiphanies by artists with eternally youthful attitudes--a sensibility that resonates neatly with French digital artist Nicolas Sassoon's Green Waves, a vast surround-sound and light environment of choreographed pixels in motion at the May Gallery in Bywater, and Irish artist Jane Cassidy's electronic music-video composition at Parse. Both of these sublimely ethereal shows at two of the newer art spaces in town extend a long local tradition of experimental art in unlikely places. ~D. Eric Bookhardt


LaPopSexTVArtShow: Group Exhibition Curated by Beau Tardy and Michael Fedor, through June 1, Barrister's Gallery, 2331 St. Claude Ave, 710-4506