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MIXED GREENS - Kim Beck

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Kim Beck
A Great Piece of Turf

Mixed Greens Gallery
531 W.26th St.
New York, NY 

April 24th - May 23rd, 2014
Opening:  April 24th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Mixed Greens is pleased to announce A Great Piece of Turf, their second solo 
exhibition with Pittsburgh-based artist Kim Beck. Beck takes her title from 
Albrecht Dürer's 1503 watercolor by the same name (she substitutes "A" for 
"The") and uses the word turf to refer to both lawn and territory. 

In the front gallery, Beck presents a series of draped chain-link fences made 
of hand-cut, primed linen. Subtle graphite lines appear along cut edges, 
imperfections reveal themselves, and a glow emanates from painted 
undersides. Working from images of security fences and construction barriers, 
Beck's life-sized fragments of fencing become collapsed, ineffective grids, 
failing to secure or protect. As remnants of what were once blockades, these 
pieces are meditations on fences, territory, turf, and even painting itself.

As one approaches the back gallery, a large-scale graphite drawing of what 
appears to be a garden or tropical swamp gradually coalesces into the 
image of an overgrown lawn. Here, Beck has rendered a piece of her own 
backyard at a monumental size and scale— a ground-level examination of 
her own turf. In 2012, this piece of ground was transported from her yard in 
Pittsburgh to Flux Factory, where it flourished under grow lights before being 
transplanted in Queens. Based on photographs of the installation, the 
drawing calls attention to an otherwise mundane plot. 


Music by:
Chill Carrier - A New Day

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