K A T E B E C K
Calypso —————— , 2025. oil on linen. 120 x 73 x 2 inches © 2025 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 painting is reminiscent of the pigment sculptures by Anish Kapoor (b.1954), subtle poetic works with fragile skin and infinite depth of color. Descent into Limbo (1992), an unfathomable deep chasm of dark blue pigment, is part of the Kapoor collection at the De Pont Museum in Tilburg. "
- Piet Augustijn, Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art at Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands, in his essay, Kate Beck and the Potential of Line
Maine loft, 2025.
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’s physical, structured works are conceptualized through formal criteria of organized mark, scale, color, and materials engaging historic techniques of process and abstraction recast within the contemporary experience.
Embodying concepts of time, memory, presence, and place, her intention holds a deep integration with human, wildlife, and nature ecologies.
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With exhibition experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, and Italy, Beck is a recipient of support grants from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York. She is a fellow of the BAU Institute, New York and Italy, and her works are commissioned and collected publicly and privately, including the Raum Schroth collection at Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany.
Kate Beck is an American painter and writer.
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