THE WILDNESS: KIM BECK

Kim Beck has created Grand Openings at the Grand Canyon and skywriting events in places from New York to Missouri. Moving fluidly between media, her work has been shown on billboards along I70, in botanical gardens, on rooftops along the High Line, at the Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Warhol Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Omi and Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art. She has been held artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Sharpe-Walentas, Art Omi, Bemis Center, Montalvo among others. She grew up in Colorado and now lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches at Carnegie Mellon.

In Beck’s work for Speedwell Projects, silhouettes of everyday weeds and critters are rendered in vinyl on the windows. The plants and animals in this landscape are a mix of invasive and native species, some threatening, some benign, mostly banal, overlooked and ignored. Defining the window as a border between inside and outside, it is the ground for a repetition of the creatures whose environment we see, alter and coinhabit. 

This talk will be offered on zoom, via Speedwell LIVE