K A T E  B E C K

Storm Tide, Fuji analog print on Epson Glacé

“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 at the Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands, in his 2011 essay, Kate Beck and the Potential of Line

  • Untitled painting, 2024. oil on. linen. 27x19x2 inches. Private Collection

  • Wilderness Plan, 2021. oil on linen. 64x62x2 inches

  • Wilderness Plan, II, 2023. oil on linen. 64x62x2 inches

  • Kengai Falling, 2023. oil on linen. 40x40x2 inches

  • Untitled 'scape, 2021. oil on linen. 10x10x2 inches

  • Untitled drawing, charcoal on Rives BFK, 64x80inches, 2021. Private Collection

  • Field Studies Drawing, 2022. graphite on paper

  • Field Studies Drawing II, 2022. graphite on paper

  • Field Studies Drawing III, 2022. graphite on paper

  • Dahlia painting, 2022. oil on linen. 10x10x2 inches.

  • Dahlia painting, II, 2022. oil on linen. 10x10x2 inches.

  • Dahlia painting, III, 2022. oil on linen. 10x10x2 inches.

  • Roses, Roses, 2024. oil on linen. One of 2-panel diptych, each 96x117x2 inches

  • River, 2022. oil on linen. 64x62x2 inches Private Collection

  • Untitled painting, 2017. oil on linen. 64x62x2 inches.

  • Adrift painting,, 2021. oil, graphite on linen. 96x112x2 inches

  • Untitled blue painting, 2021. oil on linen. 64 x 86 x 2 inches. Private Collection

  • Reve Verte, 2019. oil on linen, 64 x 86x 2 inches. Private Collection

  • Untitled painting, 2020. oil on linen. 62x64x2 inches

  • Untitled painting, 2023. oil on linen. 64x62x2 inches

  • Untitled painting, 2015. oil on linen. 64x86x2 inches.

  • Wilderness Plan (James), 2019. oil, graphite on aluminum. 12x12x.5 inches. Private Collection

  • Untitled painting, 2012. oil, graphite, enamel on aluminum. Private Collection

  • Untitled painting, 2012. oil, graphite, enamal on aluminum. 12x12x.5 inches. Private Collection

  • Existere, 2010. oil, graphite, enamel on linen. 60x60x2 inches. Private Collection

  • Untitled painting, 2010. oil, graphite, enamel on linen. 60x60x2 inches. Private Collection.

  • Forgetting Air (poetics), 2010, oil on linen, 60x60x2 inches. Private Collection

  • Anxieties + Alienations, 2010. oil, graphite, enamel on aluminum. 86x145x.5 inches

  • Essential Structure, 2010. oil, graphite, enamel on aluminum. 56 x 76 x .5 inches

  • Modulation, 2010. Oil, graphite, enamel on aluminum. 60x60x.5

  • Modulation01.6, 2012. graphite on paper on aluminum.

  • Modulation01.6, 2012. graphite on paper on aluminum. 10x10x.5 inhes

  • Drawing, 2004. Graphite on Paper

  • Untitled drawing, 2008. graphite, charcoal on vellum. 48 x 60 inches. Private Collection.

  • Untitled drawing, 2004. graphite on Fabriano. 24 inches x 36 inches. Private Collection

  • Modulation drawing, 2010. Graphite on paper on aluminum panel. Series of 6 . Public/Private Collections

  • Drawing, 2010-2016. Graphite on Rives BFK, on wood panel 10 x10 x 1 inches. Public/Private Collections

  • ARCHIVE: Untitled, 2008. oil, graphite on canvas. 20 x 20 x 1.5 inches. Private Collection

  • ARCHIVE: Untitled, 2008. oil, graphite on canvas. 20 x 20 x 2 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Construct, 2002. Graphite, housepaint on paper. 24 x 26 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Construct II, 2005. Graphite, housepaint on paper. 36 x 24 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Yellow.Yellow, 2004. oil on canvas. 60 x 84 x 2 inches. Private Collection

  • ARCHIVE: Red.Red, 1997. poured oil on linen. 42 x 42 x 1.5 inches. Private Collection.

  • ARCHIVE: Blue (Haiku), 2006. oil, pencil on canvas. 42 x 42 x 2 inches.

  • ARCHIVE: Canyon.Red, 2004. oil on canvas. 42 x 42 x 2 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Red.Red II, 1998. oil on canvas, 16 x 16 x 1

  • ARCHIVE: Orange.Red, 2003. oil on canvas. 42 x 38 x 1.5 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Yellow.White, 2004. oil on canvas. 86 x 64 x 1.5 inches. Private Collection.

  • ARCHIVE: Yellow.Green, 2003. diptych. oil on canvas. 12 x 24 x 2 inches

  • ARCHIVE: Black.White, 2003. Oil on Canvas. 52 x 76 x 1.5 inches. Private Collection

  • ARCHIVE: Naranga, 2003. Poured oil on canvas. 86 x 64 x 1.5 inches.

ALL IMAGES © 2024 Kate Beck/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

PROJECTS

Paesagges, Finding Morandi

Will’s Strait Suite

Northeast Pastoral

Art + Architecture

EXHIBITIONS

PUT TOGETHER - COLLAGE RECONSIDERED

Nancy Baker • Kate Beck • Tom Burckhardt • Janice Caswell
Jane Cornwell • Darnstudio • Chris Durante • Elizabeth Gourlay
Meg Hitchcock • Bob Knox • Sarah Short

ABOUT

Kate Beck has collaborated with curators, artists, and others including The New Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art and Friends of The New Mexico Museum of Contemporary Art; Center for Maine Contemporary Art; Ogunquit Museum of American Art; Portland Museum of Art; Berg, Jones, Sarvis Dance and Choreography; OK Harris Works of Art; Daphne Anderson Deeds and daphne.art; Kristin Dodge and September gallery; Pelavin Gallery and Masters Projects; Matthew Deleget, Rossana Martinez and M-nuspace; Design Trust for Public Space New York; Urban Zen Foundation; Kentler International Drawing Space; The Drawing Center; and Tracy Silver Motion, LA. Also, The BAU Institute, New York & Italy; parisCONCRET, France; Gorcums Museum, The Netherlands; PIT Project Space, Belgium; Stiftung Konzeptuelle Soest, Germany; Ivo Ringe, artist, curator, Germany; Fiona Robinson, artist, writer, curator, UK; Brito Rodriguez Arquitectura, Portugal; Museo Morandi, Italy; Thomas A Clark, poet, Scotland; and Peter Foolen Editions, The Netherlands.

Kate Beck is an American painter and writer.

Curriculum Vitae

CONTACT

Daphne Anderson Deeds, Curator & Art Advisor, CT USA

Suzette McAvoy, Curator & Art Advisor, ME USA

Stiftung Konzeptuelle Kunst, Soest, Germany

Maine Media Workshops + College

Maine Loft by Appointment: studio (at) katebeck.art