Under Construction
January 21 – March 28, 2020 / The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings / Katherine Nash Gallery / University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
October 13 – November 12, 2011 / Under Development / Mixed Greens, New York, NY
Graphite and charcoal on paper
In these large drawings, Beck rendered ladders, windows, structural beams, and houses under construction. The resulting pictures are unstable and impossible architectural spaces. Each drawing has cutouts in the paper itself, suggesting something being built and destroyed at the same time. Lines in charcoal and graphite are erased and redrawn, palimpsests, where the a construction site is a metaphor for the process of drawing itself.
