JARROD BECK:
STRIKE SLIP
Gallery 1 + 2 + Hallway + Dock
May 16 – August 31, 2013
Opening Reception | Thursday, May 16, 6–9pm
Gallery Tours | Thursday, May 16, 6:30pm, Thursday, August 15, 7pm
1. The gap between the two (2013)
Stained maple, 2” x 40’ x 60’
2. Strike Slip (2013)
Ink on bleached paper, 12’ x 22’ x 2”
3. Talus (2013)
Asphalt felt, 6’ x 16’ x 2”
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4. Press (2013)
Rubber, ink, newsprint, 1” x 45’ x 62’
5. The Breaking Up of a Continent (2013)
Ink on perforated paper, 12 x 22’
6. Council Bluffs (2013)
Paper, ink, 4 x 3 x 6’
7. The thing we have the most of (For AB) (2013)
Plastic bags, Hydrocal, 4 x 3 x 10’
8. Eighty two twenty (2013)
Blown tires, variable dimensions
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Jarrod Beck is a recent Bemis Center
resident whose sprawling, architecturalscale installations emerge from a highly
physical, elegant drawing process. Beck’s
exhibition expands from the galleries to
the exterior loading dock and hallway and
is a direct outgrowth of his work created
while in residence.
Beck creates singular spaces and
environments that entwine evocatively
repurposed mass accumulations of
building materials with the architecture
of the gallery to build crystalline
emotional resonances. The installation
process for this exhibition will continue
throughout its duration — a progression
that forms a critical aspect of the work.
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has generated an uncertain, shifting terrain that alludes to geologic
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its site. Beck’s process is a hybrid of his dual history working as an
architect and a printmaker. Here, the intentional line holds equal weight
to generative and accidental marks. Beck has both expanded the act of
printmaking to the scale of the building, and broken architecture down
to its core parts. There is rich detail in the layers of his work — gashed
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uncovered, a work literally produced by the weight and presence of
visitors. Much of the exhibition similarly sets the push of accumulation
against the pull of excavation.
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was in residence during the spring of 2013, and during that time utilized
the Okada Sculpture Facility as a testing ground for these new works.
His exhibition is a continuation of that work — both in process and form.
This exhibition, uniquely, will continue to morph in response to Beck’s
repeated visits. After the initial opening, Beck will return in early June and
again in July and August, with new material, and reform the spaces to
produce wholly new experiences of the exhibition.
Strike Slip fully alters the gallery space and our experience of that space
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About the Artist
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are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art and he
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