K A T E B E C K
HERE NOT HERE , 2024. oil, digital chromogenic print on aluminum panels. 24 x 36 inches © 2025Kate 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 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
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 was born in Bath, Maine in 1956.
Her 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.
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A scholarship recipient in fine art and writing 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 is an academic editor, occasional blogger, and published poet.
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.
