Beaux Cantelli

Beaux Cantelli is a multidisciplinary artist from New Orleans, Louisiana. Their work reflects the city’s resourceful spirit by finding beauty in grief, rhythm, and resilience. Early exposure to formal training shaped a strong foundation in painting, and Beaux quickly gravitated toward oil and acrylic mediums. Beginning with realism and impressionist influence, their visual language grew into abstraction, marked by spindled and entangled forms that carry traces of both emotional weight and release.

Art has always been personal for Beaux. In adolescence, drawing became a way to process hardship, laying the groundwork for a practice that captures emotion and sensation in visual form. Today, music is the central thread in their work. Illustrations inspired by live performances led to a passion for photography, where Beaux experiments with flash and long exposures to create collaborative images that feel like paintings made with the performer.

Alongside personal projects, Beaux has exhibited work in galleries, sold paintings internationally, and built a body of design and illustration for musicians, companies, and community groups. As graphic designer of the record label Discipline and Restraint, they create physical media like cassette designs and digital releases on a pay-what-you-can model, reflecting a commitment to accessibility and collaboration. They also volunteer design skills creating flyers and merchandise for events that support sobriety in youth communities.

Through every medium, Beaux’s art is a process of translating feeling into form, without prescribing meaning. Each piece is both a record of personal emotion and an invitation for others to encounter their own experience.