K A T E B E C K
Untitled Drawing, 2019. charcoal on Velin d’Arches BFK Rives. 72 x 96 inches © 2025Kate Beck/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Private Collection
“Nothing in nature is ever the same: the skies, the waves, the land, and the colours.
Kate Beck’s drawings are poetic impressions of coloured perceptions, interpretations of personal experience of nature created from within and resulting in an oasis of inner calm and contemplation, but also mystery; not sombre, but positive and optimistic. They are encapsulations of intensity, intimacy, and peacefulness, in geometrical form. “
~ Piet Augustijn, Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands, in his essay, Kate Beck and the Potential of Line
Untitled, 2008. Oil, Graphite, Mineral, Canvas. 20x20 inches. Private Collection
PROJECTS
Paesagges, Finding Morandi
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
PUT TOGETHER - COLLAGE RECONSIDERED
Nancy Baker • Kate Beck • Tom Burckhardt Janice Caswell • Jane Cornwell • Darnstudio • Chris Durante • Elizabeth Gourlay • Bob Knox
ABOUT
Kate Beck was born in Bath, Maine in 1956.
Her physical, structured works are conceptualized through formal criteria of organized mark, scale and color, engaging historic techniques of process and abstraction recast within the contemporary experience.
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A scholarship recipient in drawing, sculpture, and poetry from Bennington College, Beck holds an MFAIA from Goddard College. Her research experience includes post-doc seminars with Columbia University Department of Art History & Archeology and Institute of Latin Studies, Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center, and Museo Morandi in Bologna, Italy.
She has exhibited, lectured, and collaborated with artists, cohorts, curators and commercial and academic venues in the United States, including New York City, as well as Great Britain, Germany, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, and Italy for over thirty years. She is a recipient of support grants from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and is a fellow of the BAU Institute, New York and Italy.
Her works are commissioned and collected publicly and privately, including the Museum Wilhelm Morgner with Raum Schroth, Germany; Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Maine; and Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art, New Mexico, among others.
Kate Beck is an American painter and writer.
CONTACT
Maine Loft by Appointment: {studio[at]katebeck[dot]art}