Does Kelly Beeman paint from memory or just paint from a distance and is there a differnce? I’ll admit I have been a huge fan of Beeman’s work over the years, as this incredibly vivid and yet arm’s length depiction of suburbia, family, childhood, fashion, trauma all painted with an eloquent aesthetic of fantasy and perfection. Memories aren’t perfect, and all of our coming of age stories, are, indeed, rarely ideal. In a contemporary culture of selfies and social media’s ability to falsify the reality of our current condition, where a smile with friends at a Friday dinner could mask what is a turbulent time in one’s life,