Robert Beatty

Lexington, Kentucky based artist and musician.

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"Buffalo Bumpers Data-Book”, despite the title not having anything in common with the premier issue, is indeed the second periodical in a series of haywire declarations from Robert Beatty, self published by his own AHEM Editions. But what is a Buffalo Bumper? And why does it need a manual of specifications? No guarantees are made that the answer will be found within.

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“Buffalo Bumpers Data-book” by Robert Beatty, Published by AHEM Editions, Summer 2025. 12 pages, full color newsprint tabloid (approx. 11.5”x14.5”)

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“Anti-Gravity Holiday Every Month” is the first volume in a series of corrupted motivational broadsides commemorating the twilight of the Information Age—ten brief, winding songs mirroring scrambled downloads of the Wild West elevator music infomercials ripped from your dreams.

Available here

“Anti-Gravity Holiday Every Month” by Robert Beatty, Published by AHEM Editions, Spring 2025. 12 pages, full color newsprint tabloid (approx. 11.5”x14.5”)

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Some recent posters I've made for shows in Lexington.

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After a few years out of print, my book Floodgate Companion is back from Floating World Comics. Originally published in 2016, back in a third edition- 112 pages of otherworldly cosmic ephemera in a clothbound foil-stamped hardcover. Order here: https://floatingworldcomics.com/shop/art-books/floodgate-companion-by-robert-beatty

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Excited to share a new book that I've made for LAY—OUT featuring 32 pages of esoteric graphic design Risograph printed in 2 colors with a 2 color silkscreened cover. Available now from shop.seenstudio.com along with many other books in the series from incredible artists and designers.

"Robert Beatty is a Lexington, Kentucky based designer, illustrator and musician whose work and techniques have become something of a gold standard in album artwork and editorial design. His work veers from psychedelic-adjacent 1970s airbrush to inscrutable vector linework to graphically downgraded imagery that feels filtered through broken technologies. Oftentimes in the same piece. His use of type and color only add to his formidable visual skills. His work is consistently inspiring and visually addictive.

For his LAY—OUT volume Robert has produced a suite of esoteric graphic design that feels like coded signals from a lost (or not yet found) civilization. In lush purple and black tones the compositions seem to exude meaning -- quasi letterforms mingle with hazy images of storms or sound waves or maybe planetary collapse. Undulating forms ooze over one another, obscuring cartographies of unknowable sites.

32 Pages, 2 color Risograph print, 2 color silkscreened cover, hand stamped inner back cover First edition 2023"

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Poster for THE GATHERING, presented by New Red Order and The Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium as a closing event for Counterpublic 2023 in St. Louis. "New Red Order and Cahokia Intertribal Noise Symposium Presents: The Gathering, an innovative live event format that splits the difference between the Gathering of Nations Pow Wow and the Gathering of the Juggalos. Combining public assembly, academic symposium, music festival, and film screening, the two day event will conjure new pasts and ancient futures of the-place-currently-called St. Louis. Artists, activists and academics share the line-up with rappers and noise musicians in order to present a discursive and hallucinatory trip towards collectively convoking crimes against reality."

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“Anti-Radiant Cognition” is a new 4 color risograph print edition for Printed Matter. Printed by Perfectly Acceptable Press in Chicago. Available this week at Expo Chicago or online now at Printed Matter. Signed and numbered edition of 100 

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Playing my final show of 2022 in Louisville with Equipment Pointed Ankh and Ylem at Planet of the Tapes. First time playing outside of Lexington in a few years, come out if you're in the area! Here's the poster I made for the show.

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Video for “Tongue Shaped Rock” by Christina Vantzou. 

Video by Robert Beatty. 

From the album “No. 5″ out today on Kranky.

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Not really using Tumblr much anymore for obvious reasons, follow me on Instagram or Twitter for current updates. https://www.instagram.com/robertbeattyart/ https://twitter.com/edsunspot

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