Lisa Beck received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work
has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New
York galleries and throughout the United
States and Europe.
Beck is a native New Yorker, now based in Brooklyn.
“I'm interested in the way that vision and perception are
the product of editing and splicing in the brain; the innate desire for
organization and patterning is strong. Our sense of a visual flow is illusory.
It comes to us in bits and pieces and from these we construct our reality.
An artwork is a static representation of one possibility among many, not
a monolithic solution. So I tend to make work with multiple possible points
of view or multiple possible arrangements. I've used different
types of patterning in my work: repetition, radial, binary (like inkblot)
mixed with areas of randomness. The use of sculptural materials
has developed steadily and I am now producing 3D works apart from paintings,
with forms that relate to my general repertoire: spheres, lines, cubes.
I am especially enamored of the transparent sphere. Its visual properties
are rich: looking into one condenses and clarifies, but also flips and
reverses what is seen. It is both fragile and dense. The appeal of sculptural
work is its sense of being in the same physical space as the viewer, of
co-existing almost as another being with its own inner life. The imagery
I employ is wide ranging, from representational to abstract. The dot patterns
are derived from anything from splatter to stars to spider webs. I like
simple shapes for their versatility of reference- the dot as star, molecule
or self, the line as path, connection or movement.”-LB 2002 |
