{"id":8554,"date":"2013-04-11T18:40:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T01:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2013-07-07T00:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T07:10:50","slug":"tim-bessel-and-his-warhol-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/04\/11\/tim-bessel-and-his-warhol-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Bessell and his Warhol Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Surfboard Art, Andy Warhol And Standing Nudes<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Tim Bessell Talks Pop<\/h1>\n<p>words and cell phone pics by Rob Rowsey<\/p>\n<p>Tim Bessell is building a number of Limited Edition surfboards inspired by the art of the pop icon Andy Warhol. They&#8217;re not cheap, either. The tall, blue &#8220;Dance Steps&#8221; longboard pictured below goes for $8,000. It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bessellsurf.com\/artist_series.php\">one of ten<\/a> of that version being made.<\/p>\n<p>Bessell said that last year the shorter black and purple flower-design <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0065-2000px.jpg\">Warhol board<\/a> was purchased for $18,000 by the late David Copley, one-time owner of San Diego Union\/Tribune newspaper. Out of this the shaper volunteered to me that he earned between $1,000 and added that maybe it was more like up to $1,800. He wasn&#8217;t too sure about his exact fee. This is an artist that seems more dedicated to integrity in his art and contributing to his community than interested in money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a donation and bought through the San Diego Museum Of Art at auction, at their bi-annual benefit auction. It was bought for the intention of giving it to his assistant,&#8221; said Bessell.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He (Copley) died a couple of months later. It was sad. He never got to see it&#8230; He had major heart problems, a heart transplant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0070-2000px.jpg\">one<\/a> of the photos below the board third from the left is for sale for &#8220;$6,600 &#8211; because of the size. It&#8217;s 6-6,&#8221; said Bessell. &#8220;They&#8217;re all one of ten.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When I stopped in to Tim Bessel&#8217;s La Jolla shop today he was out front on the sidewalk rolling up a large canvas banner with an picture of an AK-47 and he made mention of it being from a recent collaboration with another La Jolla artist, Glenn Chase. Bessell also had some images he&#8217;d recently created that looked like resin-covered photographic panels that he was impregnating with crushed glass, or &#8220;diamond dust,&#8221; as he called it. &#8220;Very dangerous stuff,&#8221; Bessell said.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also expanding his catalog of fine art images to a series of standing female nudes derived from photos of a dark-haired model he has worked with &#8211; a new genre for him , from what I&#8217;ve seen. Tim has mostly been about surf-art culture and pop art up to now.<\/p>\n<p>Open to the public, you can come and get them or just take a look at the epic surfboards lining the walls and on display or the hanging art in Tim Bessel&#8217;s studio\/office\/gallery, where there&#8217;s always some sort of project going on and a friendly face to be seen, at <a href=\"http:\/\/bessellsurf.com\">Bessell Surfboards<\/a>, 515 Westbourne, La Jolla, CA 92037, phone 858-344-7080.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Bessell&#8217;s Andy Warhol Series can be ordered through <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandersalazarfineart.com\/\">Alex Salazar Fine Art<\/a>, 640 Broadway Suite A, San Diego, CA 92101, phone 619-531-8996. Inquiries can be directed via email at <a href=\"mailto:alexandersalazarfineart@gmail.com\">alexandersalazarfineart@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0067-2000px.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8565\" alt=\"IMAG0067-2000px\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0067-2000px.jpg?w=500\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0067-2000px.jpg?w=1196&amp;ssl=1 1196w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0067-2000px.jpg?resize=179%2C300&amp;ssl=1 179w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IMAG0067-2000px.jpg?resize=612%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 612w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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