Lectures, Italy, Siena, 18 June 2013
Summer resident artist at the Siena Art Institute for the month of June, American visual artist Jarrod Beck lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently working on a series of projects that connect us to the meteorological, geological and political processes shaping the land we inhabit.
His works – massive, fragile structures in landscapes prone to inundation and erosion-- are sited along the borders society has drawn in the landscape. They are impermanent and built by hand as much as they are shaped by weather, light, wind and human contact.
Beck uses materials on vast scales, that can be experienced using multiple senses, to overwhelm peripheral vision and to engage the viewer's participation.
Beck's drawings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has created installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, South Street Seaport Museum, Lawndale Art Center, Instituto Cervantes NY, Cape Cod National Seashore and Provincetown Art Museum. He has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Robert Blackburn Print Workshop, and Lower East Side Printshop. A series of installations, begun last year at Stony Brook University and the Rhode Island School of Design, will continue this year at Siena Art Institute and Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Picture: Strike-Slip, 2013, Ink, bleached stacked and bound paper, 144” x 230” x 2”
His works – massive, fragile structures in landscapes prone to inundation and erosion-- are sited along the borders society has drawn in the landscape. They are impermanent and built by hand as much as they are shaped by weather, light, wind and human contact.
Beck uses materials on vast scales, that can be experienced using multiple senses, to overwhelm peripheral vision and to engage the viewer's participation.
Beck's drawings are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. He has created installations at Socrates Sculpture Park, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, South Street Seaport Museum, Lawndale Art Center, Instituto Cervantes NY, Cape Cod National Seashore and Provincetown Art Museum. He has been an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony, Fine Arts Work Center, Vermont Studio Center, Robert Blackburn Print Workshop, and Lower East Side Printshop. A series of installations, begun last year at Stony Brook University and the Rhode Island School of Design, will continue this year at Siena Art Institute and Universidad Central de Venezuela.
Picture: Strike-Slip, 2013, Ink, bleached stacked and bound paper, 144” x 230” x 2”
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