Lisa Beck
Born in 1958 in New-York, where she lives and works.
Lisa Beck draws her motifs and compositions from a vast repertoire of forms, to create large murals, sculptures or installations. She applies paint on the canvas freehand, carefully juxtaposing layer after layer. Her work require active participation from visitors, in part because the reflections of mylar force them to shift positions in order to fully appreciate the painting’s distortion.
The artist is attracted to opposing but related visual phenomena, such as positive and negative, pattern and chance, colour and greyscale, flatness and depth, figurative and abstract imagery. Much of his work has been about finding ways to integrate these opposites. The most common motif is the circle in all its forms and references. Atoms, points, spheres, solids, voids, cells, self, stars, eternity, emptiness
A solo exhibition of Lisa Beck’s work was shown at the contemporary art center Circuit, Lausanne in 2015.