Barbara Beck Free From Hand Built Porcelain Sculpture

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Barbara Beck free form handmade porcelain hand painted sculpture.

Barbara Beck artist.

Beck’s work is inspired by artist such as … Read more Barbara Beck free form handmade porcelain hand painted sculpture.

Barbara Beck artist.

Beck’s work is inspired by artist such as Helen Frankenthaler, Yayoi Kusama, Clifford Still, Yosef Albers.

AWARDS
CAPS Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, 1983-84
COLLECTIONS (selective)
First National Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Southhampton Hospital, Southhampton, NY

FILMS & PUBLICATIONS
"Birds of Sorrow and Joy", Marshhawk Press, cover and interior water colors, 2003
"White Owl," MEB/PNY, NYC, cover frontispiece & back cover, 2000
"Towards Sprihgbank," Damascas Road Press, PA, drawings & cover design, 1981
"Keeping House in the Forest," Journal of New Jersey Poets, cover design & woodcuts, 1977
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, catalog cover, collage, 1974, '67
"Enforcement: A Report on Equal Protection in the South," U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, collage
cover design, 1965
"Luna," Bernardo Bertolucci, collages, 1980
"Can't Stop the Music," Allan Carr, drawings, graphics, collages, ceramics, 1980
"Manhattan," Woody Allen, drawings, graphics, collages, 1979



b. 1939. Minneapolis, Minnesota
BA Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1962.
Graduate Studies Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 1962-63.
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2000
Studio Gallery 88, NYC.
1995
Renova Gallery, Warren, CT.
1994,
'89, '86, '81, 178 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
1987
Suzanne Kohn Gallery, Minneapolis, MN.
1982
Soroban Gallery, Wellfleet, MA.
1979
Island Gallery, Shelter Island, NY.
1967, '66
Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC. Curator, Walter Hopps (former Director Smithsonian Institute, Department of Contemporary Art).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
"Small Works." Washington Square East, New York University, NYC
1983 "Small Works." Pt. Washington Gallery, Pt. Washington, NY.
1983 - 84 CAPS Graphics Traveling Exhibition, New York State Council on the Arts: Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY; College of the Finger Lakes, Canandaigua, NY; Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY;
F.I.T. Gallery, NYC.
1982
1979
1966
1963
1963
Simon Weil Gallery, NYC.
Two person show. Cathedral Museum, NYC.
Walker Art Center, MN.
Five person Invitational. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN.
AWARDS
1983-84 CAPS Grant, New York State Council on the Arts.
COLLECTIONS
CORPORATE
First National Bank, Minneapolis, MN.
Southampton Hospital, Southampton, NY.
PRIVATE
Walter Hopps
Hon. Robert L Carter
Hon. Eliot Wilk & Betty Levinson
Donna Shalala
Lewis M. & Kitty Steel
Marcus Raskin
FILMS AND PUBLICATIONS
Cover, frontispiece and back cover. White Owl, MEB/PNY, NYC, 2000.
Cover design and drawings. Towards Springbank, Damascus Road Press, PA, Fall 1981.
Cover Design and woodcut illustrations. Keeping House in the Forest, Journal of New Jersey Poets,
Vol. I, No. 3, (1977).
Cover. "Enforcement: A Report on Equal Protection in the South," U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
catalog, Washington, DC, 1966.
Cover. Institute for Policy Studies, catalog, Washington, DC, 1974; Institute for Policy Studies, 1967.
Artwork featured in a film. Manhattan, Woody Allen, Director, 1979; Can't Stop the Music, Allan Carr, Director, 1980; Luna, Bernardo Bertolucci, Director, 1980.
TEACHING
1977 -
1994 - 2005
YMHA, NYC. Ceramics.
PS 75, after-school program, NYC. Ceramics and mixed Media U. See less