K A T E B E C K
Here Not Here, 2024. Fuji digital monochromatic pigment print, oil paint, 20 in x 30 in © 2024 Kate Beck/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“Nothing in nature is ever the same: the skies, the waves, the land, and the colours.
Kate Beck’s paintings 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
PROJECTS
Recent Painting
Will’s Strait Suite
Paesagges, Finding Morandi
Here Not Here
Recent Exhibitions
PUT TOGETHER - COLLAGE RECONSIDERED
Nancy Baker • Kate Beck • Tom Burckhardt Janice Caswell • Jane Cornwell • Darnstudio • Chris Durante • Elizabeth Gourlay • Meg Hitchcock • Bob Knox
ABOUT
Kate Beck holds an MFAIA in Painting, & Critical Culture from Goddard College and has participated in post-doc seminars at Columbia University and Harvard University Mahindra Humanities Center. She studied at Maine College of Art, University of Maine, and was the recipient of a full scholarship in Drawing, Sculpture, and Poetry from Bennington College. She has been the focus of numerous articles and interviews in the United States and Europe, while lecturing, exhibiting and collaborating with artists, curators, and others including: the Ogunquit Museum of American Art; Portland Museum of Art; Center for Maine Contemporary Art; Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art and Friends of The Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art; Duane Paluska and ICON Contemporary Art; Andrew Witkin and Krakow Witkin Gallery; Daphne Anderson Deeds and daphne.art; Kristin Dodge and September gallery; Matthew Deleget, Rossana Martinez and M-nuspace; Pelavin Gallery; Masters Projects; Ivan Karp and OK Harris Works of Art; Kentler International Drawing Space; and The Drawing Center. Also, parisCONCRET, France; Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands; PIT Project Space, Belgium; and Ivo Ringe, artist, scholar, curator, Germany; Fiona Robinson, artist, writer, curator, UK; Museo Morandi, Italy; Trust for Public Space New York; Jack Craft, Rancher, Sculptor, Master Printmaker, Oakes Creek Ranch, TX; Berg, Jones, Sarvis Dance and Choreography, Maine; Tracy Silver Motion, LA; Thomas A Clark, poet, Scotland; and in the Netherlands, Peter Foolen Editions - among others. She is a Fellow of the BAU Institute, New York and Italy; and her works are collected publicly and privately, including the Raum Schroth Collection, Stiftung Konzeptuelle, Soest, Germany.
Kate Beck is an American painter and writer.
Maine Loft by Appointment: studio (at) katebeck (dot) art