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.

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.

HUE Houston Mural Festival 2017

I've been invited to be part of this year's HUE Festival in Houston, part of Art Week. I will show work, do pop-up shops and live painting. 

>>Find out more on Facebook here <<

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.

Neo Yokio is Vaporwave.

or why I like Neo Yokio ( and positively hate Rick & Morty. )

Beau Tardy. Saturday, September 30, 2017.

America is a very literal country. We say what we mean and we do what we say. Our founding fathers were all men of letters, even newspapermen, all very well read. Our constitution is written on a piece of paper by these same men. The very privilege to write anything and everything is enshrined in our first amendment. We are a country run by writers, whether they be writers of laws, of contracts, of screenplays or of checks. The writers literally run the show. Until now.

The writing on Neo Yokio is the polar opposite of the pedantic, heavy handed, supercilious Rick & Morty whose editorial board is essentially reddit.com. Please deliver us from these sanctimonious, college essay driven writing stylings of today's bloggers cum screenwriters who populate new media bullpens.

Neo Yokio is refreshingly superficial, light and breezy like a menthol cigarette or a diet 7 up. It's style is tongue and cheek, self effacing, unpretentious and full of 1990s anime cliches. Neo Yokio is light on the writing, light on the social righteousness and light on the eyes. In short, it's vaporwave.

The art is where the love is. Here finally is a cartoon that recognizes that this is a visual art, not a puppet theater for frustrated pamphleteers.  From the mock 1930s Monaco Grand Prix posters, to the beautiful art deco renderings of the Chrysler Building, to the pink and blue nostalgia vaporwave skies of Neo Yokio, this is a clever pastiche and a clin d'oeil to art history.

Neo Yokio's absurdist retro futurism, the foppish cocktail parties, the mecha butler, the designer label name calling and the giant toblerones give the whole thing the feeling of an 1980s cocaine and vodka hangover that is just delightful.

 I love it. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Beau Tardy/ 
www.tardyartist.com

Neo Yokio is a Netflix original production.

Created by	Ezra Koenig
Written by	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Alexander Benaim
Directed by	Kazuhiro Furuhashi Junji Nishimura
Creative director(s)	Ben Jones
Production
Executive producer(s)	Ezra Koenig Nick Weidenfeld Hend Baghdady Angela Petrella
Producer(s)	Matthew Chadwick Andrew Chittenden Kris Wood
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	Studio Deen Production I.G. MOI Animation Infinite Elegance, LLC Friends Night
Distributor	Netflix