"Ink & Digital: Drawings and Collages" Art Exhibition | Opening Reception ft. Aaron Beatty
Fri, Feb 10
|Ultra Silk Gallery
Joins Us for Second Fridays at Ultra Silk Gallery. Enjoy the finest in Art, Music, Culinary Delights, Libations and toast to artistry at its best.


Time & Location
Feb 10, 2023, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
Ultra Silk Gallery, Storefront, 3808 Lancaster Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
About the Event
Aaron Beatty is an illustrator, painter, comic book and digital artist from Philadelphia PA; a city that plays a major role in his life and work. Aaron has been making art from an early age starting with copying panels from his favorite comic books. This interest led him to study at The High School of Creative and Preforming Arts, Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design. Over the years he has worked in the comic book industry as an inker, a freelance illustrator, art director and teacher just to name a few.
Aaron's creative influences are drawn from a diverse kaleidoscope of music, social events and cultural revolutionary artists of the 1970's. Music from Afro-Punk, Miles Davis, Nina Simone and Fela Kuti were his lyrical Sirens. Artists such as Jean Michel Basquiat, Jerry Pinkney and fellow art friends Reggie Byers, Christopher Taylor and Eric Battle fuels his collective fellowship with…