Kim Beck
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Ladybird Billboard #3
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Ladybird Billboard #1
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Heap (Under Development @ Mixed Greens, 2011)
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Space Available, NYC
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laughter trips at the threshold of desire
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Everything Must Go
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A Field Guide to Weeds
| Artistic Category | artist |
|---|---|
| Career Level | Mid-career |
| Experienced With | Collaboration, Commissions, For-hire services, Leading workshops, Lectures, Public art, Speaking engagements, Teaching engagements |
Using images of architecture and landscape, Kim Beck makes drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, books, cutout sculptures and installations that survey peripheral and suburban spaces. Electrical transformers, cell towers, and billboards grow like invasive species. And invasive species, such as dandelions, pop up in photographs of lawns and installations using vinyl decals, stuck directly to walls and windows. These create mutated landscapes, alien-but-familiar spaces in a continuous state of flux. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment - the peculiar street signs, gas station banners, overgrown weeded lots, and self-storage buildings — bringing the banal and everyday into focus.
Kim Beck grew up in Colorado and currently lives in Pittsburgh. Her work has been shown on the High Line, at the Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, the Warhol Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Omi International Arts Center and is currently on view at 100 Acres: the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, Art Omi, Yaddo, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Cité Internationale des Arts, Vermont Studio Center, & VCCA and has received awards from ARS Electronica, Pollock-Krasner, Heinz Foundation, Thomas J. Watson Foundation and Printed Matter. Beck has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Brandeis University. She is represented by Mixed Greens, NYC and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia and is an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon.
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Genres
- Cut paper
- Drawing
- Found object
- Installation
- Light
- Mixed-media
- Other
- Painting
- Performance
- Printmaking
- Public Art
- Sculpture
- Set design
- Social Practice / Civic Engagement
- Textile
Keywords
- Abstract
- Acrylic
- Alternative
- Appropriation
- Assemblage
- Black & white
- Cardboard
- Chalk pastel
- Charcoal
- Collage
- Color field
- Colored-pencil
- Conceptual
- Concrete / cement
- Cultural
- Cut Paper
- Digital manipulation
- Etching
- Experimental
- Expressionist
- Feminist
- Gestural
- Gouache
- Graphic Novel
- Graphite
- Ink
- Land/earth
- Landscape
- Light
- Minimalist
- Modern
- Mural
- Nature
- New media
- Oil Paint
- Oil Pastel
- Organic
- Other
- Paper
- Pen
- Plastic
- Recycling /green
- Silkscreen
- Site specific
- Stencil
- Watercolor
- Wood
- Woodcut