Artist Information:
Kate Beck
Harpswell, ME
United States
Member Since: Dec 2009
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Artist Statement:
Drawing through Process
I am interested in the pure
aesthetic of line as an
element of both color and
substance, and its potential
for expressing a wide range of
thought and feeling. My
drawings are created
intuitively as a response to
material placed within a
defined space or shape:
graphite on paper, paint on
substrate, objects within a
room. They are quiet, yet
deliberate. Subtle gradients
of soft and subdued tones
evolve from this repeated
resolution of line, allowing
an essence of life to echo
within the austere confines of
the structural surface. In
this way, a tension is created
which oscillates between
formalistic geometry and
existential space; an allusion
to thought and consciousness,
and the passage of time. This
is my structure; my
vocabulary.
Manifesto
I believe white to be the most
inherently beautiful color as
it carries with it the
potential to simultaneously
expose and negate space.
I believe black to be the most
innately powerful color as it
is defined by the presence of
light as well as by the
absence of light.
All comes of air, of water, of
light.
Kate Beck, 2009
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Artist Exhibitions:
Selected Exhibitions
2011 solo, Kunst-Element,
Waalre, Netherlands
2011 Kate Beck + James
Marshall, ICON Contemporary
Art, Brunswick, ME
2011 A Question of Drawing,
group,lecturer, Ogunquit
Museum of American Art,
Ogunquit, ME
2011 Field Guide to Getting
Lost, group, Pelavin Gallery,
NY, NY
2011 Therely Bare, group,
Chattanooga, Nashville, Kent
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Artist Galleries:
Todd Masters, Director
Masters & Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street
New York, NY 10013
Telephone: +1.212.925.9424
gallery@pelavingallery.com
Duane Paluska, Director
ICON Contemporary Art
19 Mason Street, Brunswick,
Maine 04011
207.725.8157
Matthew Deleget
MINUS Space flatfiles
111 Front Street, Suit 226
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Artist Reviews:
Portland Press Herald/Maine
Sunday Telegram, “Kate Beck
Pencil Drawings at Icon”,
Philip Isaacson, July 19, 2009
The Phoenix, “Good Vibrations:
Kate Beck’s Abstract Minimal
Drawings and Paintings Hum”,
Annie Larmon, July 22, 2009
“Drawing Lines – Kate Beck”,
Visual Discrepancies,
Interview by Brent Hallard ,
Tokyo, Japan, Feb. 3, 2009
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Commissions:
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Kate Beck's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Kate Beck's Portfolio.
Drawing through Process
I am interested in the pure aesthetic of line as an element of both color and substance, and its potential for expressing a wide range of thought and feeling. My drawings are created intuitively as a response to material placed within a defined space or shape: graphite on paper, paint on substrate, objects within a room. They are quiet, yet deliberate. Subtle gradients of soft and subdued tones evolve from this repeated resolution of line, allowing an essence of life to echo within the austere confines of the structural surface. In this way, a tension is created which oscillates between formalistic geometry and existential space; an allusion to thought and consciousness, and the passage of time. This is my structure; my vocabulary.
Manifesto
I believe white to be the most inherently beautiful color as it carries with it the potential to simultaneously expose and negate space.
I believe black to be the most innately powerful color as it is defined by the presence of light as well as by the absence of light.
All comes of air, of water, of light.
Kate Beck, 2009
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