Thing

September – October, 2006 / Kim Beck: Emerging Artist of the Year / Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Charcoal on paper

In this series of charcoal drawings, Beck envisions roadside signs, highway pylons, electrical wires, and gas station canopies growing into chimeras inhabiting vacant landscapes. These precise structures in rich black charcoal are contrasted by the residue of the process of making them.