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March 4, 2011 – January 12, 2012 / The High Line, New York
October, 2008 – May, 2010 / Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Plywood, steel / 8x8’ , 12x12’, 12x20’
For these projects, Beck created large flat wooden sculptures propped up with steel armatures and placed on urban rooftops along the High Line in New York City and earlier in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Based on silhouettes of billboards that Beck photographed in Mexico City, each sculpture is built like theatrical stage sets, creating the illusion of a skeletal billboard in perspective. Painted black, they became drawings against the sky—silhouettes and ghosts of a type of structure no longer welcome in the high-rent meatpacking district or in a residential neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Postcards were free for visitors. The flat sculptures are now in collections of the Philbrook Art Museum & the Minneapolis Museum of Art.
