Environmental and landscape art
Site-specific and integrated art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Kim Beck
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Digital / photography
Painting/works on paper/printmaking
Site-specificity determines materials used
Surface Tests, 2019, risograph on paper, 15′ x 10′
Therehere, 2018, photograph on billboard, variable dimensions
Here, 2022, digital print on flag material, each flag is 3′ x 5′
Road Weavings, 2020-2022, photographs and rubbings on linen, cut and woven, variable dimensions
#MINE, 2019, mirror plexiglass sign and photographs, sign measures 30″ x 30″
About the Artist
My work reflects the landscape as a shifting, mutable place. Moving between drawing, painting, print, photography, and installation, I am drawn to moments where the world frays and patterns or systems break down, and where they are also repaired. For this reason, I have spent the past several years recording potholes and road repairs, weaving images of broken asphalt together, reclaiming and painting broken discarded asphalt. My current work incorporates abstract patterns that go awry, folds, creases, spills, and accidents and ways they are knit back together.
Web
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
No
Teaching Artist
No
Joined the Directory
May 2022
Related
PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“Public art offers specific conditions to work within a set of problems, systems, and opportunities that I find creatively motivating.”
Kim Beck
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
