“Funny, smart, twisted, brilliant…just a few of the words that apply to Lou Beach’s beautiful collage illustrations. ‘Much better than mine’ also apply.”
- Terry Gilliam
“I love the art of Lou Beach because it cheers me up. Lou Beach’s art is smart, witty, original, and surprising.”
- Matt Groening
“I’ve been a witness to Lou‘s remarkable art for almost 30 years. It knocks me out — original, provocative, definitely outside the box.”
- Jeff Bridges
"World Of Men (C)" collage by Lou Beach
In his infancy, the crib-bound youth who would grow to become Lou Beach would spend hours tearing pages from a stack of nearby magazines and newspapers into tiny pieces. Beach jokes that these were not only the beginnings of his impressive collage career, but that he “may have been the earliest known paper shredder as well.”
collage art by Lou Beach
Award winning illustrator, former stunt pilot, grifter & much-admired pop icon of L.A.’s wild era of illustration during the 1970s and 80s, Lou Beach started out in life as Andrzej Jerzy Gregor Lubicz-Ledochowski. His pseudonym, Lou Beach, is taken from the family name Lubicz, which is pronounced “loo-beech“. He says that the name change “has been a source of no small consternation to his mother, but a blessing to receptionists everywhere.”
collage artwork by Lou Beach
Lou Beach has been creating collages and assemblages since the 1960s. He has designed numerous record covers & was nominated for a Grammy award for his work on the cover of Weather Reports “Heavy Weather” album. Among his many clients are Ray Manzarek, The Carpenters, ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic, Blink 182, The Neville Brothers, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Dave Alvin and the incomparable Ethel Merman.
"Heavy Weather" cover collage by Lou Beach
Beach has created editorial illustrations for Wired, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, National Lampoon, Time magazine, The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. He’s also worked on film poster art, book covers, and advertising illustrations.
collage by Lou Beach
Lou Beach was an early adopter of computers. “Beach has adapted the computer to his purposes, not the other way around. His work is not cheapened by fashionable filters and plug-ins. Regardless of program, if the artist behind the mouse lacks intelligence the picture will look dumb. Beach doesn’t know how to make a dumb picture,” says Steve Heller, art director of The New York Times Book Review.
"23 Skidoo" collage by Lou Beach
Lou has recently returned to his glue & paper roots, creating a new body of collages which are presently circulating among galleries “to popular euphoria and critical dismay” and has recently published an art book entitled Cut It Out, which is available from LastGasp, Amazon, and fine book stores everywhere.
A preview of Cut It Out by Lou Beach is also available from Google Books. 
Cut It Out by Lou Beach
"Kinky" collage by Lou Beach
Lou Beach is married to photographer Issa Sharp. Together they live in Los Angeles with their son, artist Sam Lubicz. Beach‘s daughter, Alpha Lubicz, is also a talented & accomplished painter & collage artist.
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"Preggers" collage by Lou Beach
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