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Jeffrey Beebe
Jeffrey Beebe (born 1961) is a American contemporary artist, best known for his artwork detailing the cartography, history, and mythology of his secondary world, Refractoria, which he describes as "a comprehensive imagino-ordinary world that is equal parts autobiography and pure fantasy".

Background
Beebe was born and grew up in Indianapolis. He went to college at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and earned a BFA in 1999. In 2004, he moved to Queens, New York City to attend the School of Visual Arts, graduating with a MFA in 2006.

Works
Beebe's works also includes fantastic autobiographical maps of real world cities he's lived in, Indianapolis (2011) and Chicago (2011) and New York, the City of Sociopaths (2013).

Influences
"My chosen language is derived from the benign, totally unnuanced language of commercial illustration, children's books, Japanese monster movies, Saturday morning cartoons, etc. It doesn't really match up with the professed dark intention of the work".

"Dungeons & Dragons set off a small bomb in my brain because it provided a loose structure for creating these imaginary worlds and populating them with weird and fantastic characters and weaving the whole deal into a story".

Critical
"watercolors on paper depicting a surreal world inhabited by comic-like characters often situated in dreamlike landscapes"

Tier One
A Fantasy World, and Creating Art Out of Flotsam http://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fantasy-world-and-creating-art-out-of-flotsam-1423864312 Plagens, Peter February 13, 2015 The Wall Street Journal Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

Hand-drawn maps of an imaginary kingdom are artist's autobiography/confessional http://boingboing.net/2012/11/27/hand-drawn-maps-of-an-imaginar.html Doctorow, Cory November 27, 2012 Boing Boing

Chicago Galleries Open Fall Art Season Tonight http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-klein/chicago-galleries-open-fa_b_3876856.html Klein, Paul November 5, 2013 Huffington Post

Queens is People: Jeffrey Beebe http://jeffreybeebe.com/?v=press (archived at artist's website) Hwang, Cindy Vision Magazine 2009

Project of the Day: An Imaginary World http://kickstarter.tumblr.com/post/38386124834/an-imaginary-world-over-the-past-15-years Kickstarter Team December 20, 2012 Kickstarter Tumblr

Tier Two
Jeffrey Beebe "City of Sociopaths" http://www.artinterviewsny.com/jeffrey-beebe-city-sociopaths/ Seen, Arthur January 13, 2014 Art Interviews New York

The VCS Foundation Drawing class meets artist Jeffrey Beebe at BravinLee programs http://vcs.sva.edu/2015/01/30/the-vcs-foundation-drawing-class-meets-artist-jeffrey-beebe-at-bravinlee-programs/ Edwards, Jeff January 30, 2015 School of Visual Arts, Visual & Critical Studies

Jeffrey Beebe (Lost Caverns of the Queen of Ropes) http://the22blog.com/2012/10/16/jeffrey-beebe/ October 16, 2012 The 22 Magazine

Jeffrey Beebe and Space Is the Place http://www.haberarts.com/beebe.htm Haber, John February 20, 2015 haberarts.com

The Unusual World of Jeffrey Beebe http://blog.sixtyhotels.com/unusual-world-jeffrey-beebe/ Parker, Jennifer Deppe January 26, 2015 Alpha Sixty/Sixty Hotels

Chicago Exhibitions: Jeffrey Beebe and Betsy Stirratt at Packer Schopf Gallery http://www.yareah.com/2013/07/21/1686-chicago-exhibitions-jeffrey-beebe-and-betsy-stirratt-at-packer-schopf-gallery/ Packer Schopf Gallery July 21, 2013 Yareah Magazine

9/15/06 http://www.artletter.com/2006/09/91506.html Klein, Paul Paul Klein September 15, 2006 Art Letter

BravinLee Programs Jeffrey Beebe Page http://bravinlee.com/albums/jeffrey-bebbe/ BravinLee Programs

Tier Three/Self-Published
City of Sociopaths Map http://www.cartographersguild.com/showthread.php?t=23766 Beebe, Jeffrey June 19, 2013 Cartographer's Guild Forum

Dwimmermount (Labyrinth Lord version) http://www.rpgnow.com/product/133746/Dwimmermount-Labyrinth-Lord-version Autarch Games RPG Now

Studio Visit: Jeffrey Beebe http://momaps1.org/studio-visit/artist/jeffrey-beebe MoMA PS1 2014

Jeffrey Beebe (Artist's Website) http://jeffreybeebe.com/ Jeffrey Beebe

Nessus Shirt Company http://nessusshirtco.blogspot.com/ Jeffrey Beebe

The Antagonist Movement http://theantagonistblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/art-show-and-screening.html Art Show and Screening September 16, 2009 The Antagonist Movement

Gallery Shows
Jeffrey Beebe The Battle of The Invoked Impossibility: Further Adventures in Refractoria 1/8-2/21 http://bravinlee.com/pages/past-exhibitions/ BravinLee Programs

Space is the Place: Group Exhibition (at BravinLee Programs) http://www.mutualart.com/Exhibitions/Space-is-the-Place--Group-Exhibition/30CBCDDC5917FA85

2014

Nightmares & Dreamscapes  http://albertopeola.com/en/exhibits/26-nightmares-dreamscapes Alberto Peola Gallery Andruff, Ombretta Agrò (curator) 2008

Jeffrey Beebe at Lyons Wier Ortt Gallery http://www.designboom.com/art/jeffrey-beebe-at-lyons-wier-ortt-gallery/

designbloom July 14, 2008

Jeffrey Beebe, When Wishing Still Helped: Adventures in Western Refractoria http://www.packergallery.com/beebe/ Packer Schopf Gallery