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I am interested in creating work that captures the viewer in a dynamic, physical moment.
My paintings are gestural abstractions of contemporary life and human consciousness. They embrace a sense of time and place by acknowledging the specter of human memory within the pace of day-to-day living. I use viscous layers of super-saturated oil color applied against large, quiet surfaces to suggest ease, suspension, conflict and even silence. In this way, I am able to move into the work surface, not simply to reproduce the obvious, but rather to seek greater clarity of vision, more truths.
I like to think my work is about surface, structure and luminosity.
Kate Beck, 2007 |
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2008
Gallery 181, Cotton Weaving House, Canal Street, Lawrence, MA
2001
New Work: Kate Beck, Shaw Contemporary, Northeast Harbor, ME |
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Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ |
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Writing, Collaberation - Loughborough University School of Art & Design, Leicestershire, UK |
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International consortium to explore, promote and define the value of drawing to a public at large |
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2009
Whitney Art Works, Portland, ME
2008
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2007
Biennial 2007, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH
Visual Aids, Postcards from the Edge, James Cohan Gallery, Chelsea, NY
HEAT, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Works on Paper, LBI Foundation for the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ,
2006
Visual Aids, Postcards from the Edge, Sikkema Jenkins, Chelsea, NY
2005
Overtures, Boston Women's Caucus for Art, Holyoke Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2003
Illuminations, Boston Women's Caucus for Art, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA
Arts in the Capitol, Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME
Running Hot & Steady, Boston Women's Caucus for Art, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
2002
Action/Reaction, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2001
National Drawing, University of Arizona at Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ, Juror's Award
1999
Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
1998
Summer Session, La Va Tout (Eliza Sweet Gallery), Waldoboro, ME
1997
Downeast Looks at Downeast, Union of Maine Visual Artists, Ellsworth, ME
1996
Juried Spring Invitational, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
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Berkshire Fine Arts, “Last Blast of Summer Heatâ€, Shawn Hill, August 2007 |
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NYArts Magazine, “Tips & Picks: Kate Beckâ€, New York, NY, October 2006 |
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The Arizona Republic, "Eyes have it", Roberta Burnett, May 2001 |
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