2008
Kim Beck
About the Project
In 2008, Artists Image Resource took on a large-scale project with Kim Beck as part of a Creative Heights grant from the Hienz Endowments.
Over the course of the year, we explored several possibilities and created a significant body of work. We explored numerous processes including etching, lithography, screen printing, digital printing, creating prints on plexiglass, cardboard and paper, and printing directly on walls.
We mounted a major exhibition in the winter of 2008 utilizing multiple studio and exhibition spaces. Outcomes from the project included large scale plexiglass screenprints with multiple layers, a suite of etchings, a suite of multi process prints (lithography and screen printing) as well as a stacks of printed cardboard and several wall prints.
Printers
Primary printers included Ian Short, Robert Beckman, Bill Rodgers, and Matthew Forrest.
About Kim Beck
Kim Beck has created Grand Openings at the Grand Canyon and skywriting events from New York to Missouri. Moving fluidly between media, she has shown work on billboards along I70 & in auto repair lots, in botanical gardens, on rooftops along the High Line, NYC and at the Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Warhol Museum, OK Center for Contemporary Art (Linz), Indianapolis Museum of Art, Art Omi, Yale School of Architecture and Hallwalls Center for Contemporary Art. She has held artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Art Omi, Bemis Center, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Montalvo Art Center and has received awards from ARS Electronica & Printed Matter. She grew up in Colorado and now lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon.
Artist Statement
Landscape is the tuft of weeds behind the dumpster, the backyard, the pothole, the grassy median in the parking lot, the Grand Canyon. It is owned; it is corporate, commercial, private, and fiercely public. I am curious about how it is claimed, owned, named, changed, fertilized, depleted. This curiosity is manifest in my prints, drawings, books, and installations.
