The artist JSG Boggs is currently at work on the creation of an original 9x20 foot digital painting of a "Boggs bill" for permanent display in the upper lobby of the Babson College's Richard W. Sorenson Center for the Arts, highly visible from College Drive behind floor-to-ceiling windows. A central design theme is based on the twenty-pound English banknote that commemorates the life of William Shakespeare. Ultimately the artwork will reflect Babson's commitment to the arts, a valuable component of educating creative business leaders.
JSG Boggs, known as the "Money Artist", has built his considerable reputation taking U.S. and foreign currencies as an iconographic foundation. The uncanny aesthetic authenticity of his "Boggs bills" has delighted museum audiences, while at the same time disconcerting treasury officials worldwide (arrests, trials, seizure of art, etc.).
While the unveiling will be in the fall, you can watch this work in progress take place from the sidewalk below its prominent location, which is visible to all who walk or drive by the Sorenson Center.
His works of art adorn the walls of private and public institutions across the world, including, Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the British Museum in London, the Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Info on Boggs at http://www.jsgboggs.com/
View Boggs bills at http://www.ozwei.net/boggs/boggsbills.html
Info on Boggs art: http://www.museumofmoney.org/religion/epage11.htm
"Arts have a major role at a business college -- because our students are creative, because entrepreneurs are thinkers," says Burl Hash, Director of Babson's Sorenson Center for the Arts. Babson is one of the top ranked business colleges in the world for the study of entrepreneurship.
Digital Painting
JSG Boggs has been on the forefront of digital art since his first foray into this area in 1984 when he incorporated some of the very first digital transfers of photographs into his paintings. Nineteen years later, Boggs is still ahead of the razors edge with digital paintings created on a Mac G4 Titanium laptop that are intended to be reinterpreted by generations, in both known and unknown media yet to come.
The original site-specific work that Babson has purchased exists on disk. The physical manifestation of the work is an artist's performance of the original work that may be considered an original work in its own right, much the same as musicians create new interpretations of original works by Bach. To understand this critical distinction, one must address the difference between Performance Art and the Performing Arts.
With a hydraulic lift, a Mac G4 computer, a colorful palette of inks, and an Epson 2000P archival printer, Boggs predicts his Boggs Bill will last for more than 200 years.
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