www.lisabeck.net

Lisa Beck

Born in New York City in 1958; Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Education

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA 1980

Solo Exhibitions

2015
The Middle of Everywhere, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland, curated by Caroline Soyez-Petithomme
2014
You Are Here, 33 Orchard, New York
Observatory, Galerie Samy Abrahahm, Paris
2012
Endless, Fort du Bruissin - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Looking Through, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna
To Here Knows When, Feature, New York
2011
Between Days, Feature Inc., New York
2009
To Everything, Feature Inc., New York
2006
superpositioning, Feature Inc., New York
2002
Feature Inc., New York
1997
Feature Inc., New York
1993
Never Say Never to Always, Stephanie Theodore Gallery, New York
1992
To Here Knows When, Feature, New York
1985
White Room, White Columns, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015

The Painter of Modern Life, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, curated by Bob Nickas >link
Fertility, 33 Orchard, New York >link
Iterations, Theodore:Art, Bushwick >link
Improvised Showboat, 55 Washington St, Brooklyn
Choices Paris, with Galerie Samy Abraham, curated by Alfred Pacquement, Paris >link
Unexpected Pieces, Galerie Samy Abraham, Paris
Deep End, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2014
Real Estate, Ventana 244, Brooklyn, NY
No Ground But Say Ground, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Last Brucennial, 837 Washington St, New York
Inhabiting Ten Eyck, Storefront Ten Eyck, Bushwick Brooklyn, curated by Karin Bravin
Das Optische Unbewusste / The Optical Unconscious, Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil, Switzerland curated by Fred Fischli and Niels Olsen, in collaboration with Bob Nickas
This One's Optimistic: Pincushion, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT , curated by Cary Smith
Another, Once Again, Many Times, More, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY
Let's Go Let Go - In Memoriam Hudson, 33 Orchard, New York
Dark Map, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York
The Egg, LABspace, Great Barrington, MA
2013
X-tra, Lesley Heller Workspace, NY
Diamonds, Diamonds, Gallery Diet, Miami
Swing State, Jane Kim Gallery, NY
The Shining Path, Galerie Samy Abraham, Paris
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York
2012
THING, group exhibition curated by Susan Jennings, West Cornwall, CT
Creature from the Blue Lagoon, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Exposition d'artistes né(e)s entre le 22 juin et le 22 juillet, Galerie de Multiples, Paris
Tell the Children, La Salle des Bains, Lyon, France
2011
bodybraingame, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, curated by Hudson
The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY; organized by Bob Nickas
We Regret To Inform You There Is Currently No Space or Place for Abstract Painting, Martos Gallery, New York
Lisa Beck / Philippe Richard, Theodore: Art, New York
2010
Pull My Daisy, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna
Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair, NP Contemporary Art Center, New York
Daniel Hesidence Curates, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
Lisa Beck / Olivier Mosset, Bell Street Project Space, Vienna
Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Skulture, Feature Inc., New York
Townie, Foley Gallery, New York
Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste, Le Musee des Beaux Artes, Chaux les Fonds, Switzerland
2009
Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste, Le Magasin, Grenoble
Cave Painting: Installment #1, Gresham's Ghost (third location), New York; organized by Bob Nickas
Populate This Form, Feature Inc., New York
Group exhibition, Martos Gallery, New York; curated by Bob Nickas
2008
Shit, Feature Inc., New York
2007
Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich; organized by Bob Nickas
2006
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Amanda Lear, Envoy, New York
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; organized by Robert Nickas
The O Show, Kresge Foundation Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ; curated by MatCH-Art
2005
The O Show, Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ; curated by MatCH-Art Seriality, Axel Raben Gallery, New York; curated by Stephanie Theodore and MatCH-Art The sun rises in the evening., Feature Inc., New York
2004
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc., New York
Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York; curated by Robert Nickas and Steve Lafreniere
2003
Fast Forward: 20 Years of White Rooms, White Columns, New York (catalogue), curated by Lauren Ross
Small-Scale Sculpture and Anonymous Tantra Paintings, Feature Inc., New York
2002
Guide to Trust 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by ANP (catalogue)
Lisa Beck and Marisa Telleria-Diez, Rico, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Timewave Zero / The Politics of Ecstasy, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria; curated by Lionel Bovier and Jean-Michel Wicker
Natural Wonders, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
Another, once again, many times more, Feature Inc., New York
Een goed in de weg staande tafel, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam; curated by Jack Jaeger
2000
Not a. Lear, Art Process, Paris; Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; Torch Gallery, Amsterdam; curated by ANP
Hairy Forearm's Self-Referral, Feature Inc., New York;
Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall, Team Gallery, New York; organized by Robert Nickas
The End, Exit Art, New York
Bubbles, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art (CCNOA), Brussels; curated by Edith Doove
3ness, Musuem Dhondt-Dhaenens, Duerle, Belgium; curated by ANP, Dike Blair, and Edith Doove (catalogue)
Sex in the Country, Forde l'Usine, Geneva Open the pod bay doors, Hal, Feature Inc., New York
1999
Cookie Snow Feature, Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
curious.parking@stupendous.strawberry, Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
Up Your Head, Feature Inc., New York
1998
Yoyogaga, Feature Inc., New York
Lisa Beck, Jason Fox, Bill Komoski, M du B, F, H & g, Montreal
Utz, Lennon, Weinberg Inc., New York; curated by Stephanie Theodore
Paintings (Lisa Beck, Bill Komoski, David Moreno, John Torreano), Feature Inc., New York
1997
La Tradicion: Performing Painting, Exit Art, New York
Material Girls, Gallery 128, New York; curated by Harmony Hammond
1996
Lisa Beck/Lucky De Bellevue, Feature Inc., New York
Ab Fab, Feature Inc., New York
1994
Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Feature Inc., New York
Joe's Garage, TZ'Art & Co., New York; curated by Stephanie Theodore
1991
Stussy, Feature, New York
1990
Information, Terrain, San Francisco
February 3–27, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York
Red, Galerie Christine & Isy Brachot, Brussels; curated by Robert Nickas (catalogue)
Invitational Drawing Show, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York
Godhead, Feature, New York
1989
Positive Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Romancing the Stone, Feature, New York
American Fine Arts, New York
1987
The Four Corners of Abstraction, White Columns, New York
1986
Credible/Incredible, Four Walls Gallery, Hoboken, NJ; curated by Lawrence Rinder
Stavaridis Gallery, Boston
1985
Image/Abstract, Roughhouse, New York; curated by David Row and John Ford
White Room, White Columns, New York
1983
July Group, Nature Morte Gallery, New York

Bibliography

2015
Soyez-Petithomme, Caroline, ed.The Middle of Everywhere, essays by Samuel Gross, Bob Nickas, Caroline Soyez-Petithomme, La Salle de Bains, Galerie Samy Abraham
Lescaze, Zoë. Critic's Pick: The Painter of Modern Life, Artforum
Chang, Chris. "Five Points with Bob Nickas", Art in America
"5 Must See Gallery Shows in New York", Art Info
Halle, Howard. "The Painter of Modern Life", TIme Out New York
2014
Goleas, Janet. ART REVIEW: "Another, Once Again, Many Times More" on the North Fork, HamptonsArt Hub, posted 9 August, 2014
Lequeux, Emmanuelle. "Observatory," Le Monde, 26 January
2013
Saltz, Jerry. "MoMA's Inventing Abstraction Is Illuminating—Although It Shines That Light Mighty Selectively," vulture.com, 6 January
Morais, Pedro. "Accidents Geometriques," Les Inrockuptibles, 30 January
Pernet, Hugo. " Lisa Beck Endless," Zero Quatre, spring 2013
2012
yes, no, something, nothing, never, always, Feature Inc, New York- catalog of selected works by Lisa Beck 1985-2010, interviews with Hudson and Bob NIckas Kazakina, Katya. "Art in the Hamptons," Bloomberg.com, 1 August
Miller, Michael H. "Bob Nickas Curates Summer Show in Bridgehampton One Last Time," GalleristNY.com, 22 May
Fessler, Anne Katrin. Review of "Looking Through", Der Standard, 20 June
2011
Nickas, Bob. Catalog of the Exhibition, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles (reproduction)
Indrisek, Scott. "The Pleasures of the Prosaic at the Bridgehampton Biennial," Modern Painters, posted 15 August
Rosenberg, Karen. "All Nooks, Crannies, Bedrooms and Trees are Backdrops for Art," New York TImes, 8 August C5 (reproductions)
Miller, Michael H. "Learning from Bridgehampton," New York Observer, 12 July Miller, Michael H. "So Long, Chelsea! Bob Nickas to Liven Up the Art World this Summer with Bridgehampton
Biennial," New York Observer, 1 July
Johnson, Ken. Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art, Prestel Publishing, New York
2010
Review of "Skulture," Goings On About Town, New Yorker, 25 January, 12
Rubin, David S., ed. Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, with essays by David S. Rubin, Robert C. Morgan and Daniel Pinchbeck, San Antonio Museum of Art in association with MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 33, 109
2009
Nickas, Bob. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press, New York
Smith, Roberta. Review of "To Everything," New York Times, 19 June, C29
2008
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2006
Sheets, Hilarie. "Where Magic Mushrooms Bloom," Artnews, February, 120–1
2004
Smith, Roberta. Review of "Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity," New York Times, 16 July, E28
Wilson, Michael. "Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity," Artforum, November, 222
2003
Johnson, Ken. "Alumni Return, Juxtaposing Past and Present," New York Times, 28 November
Wolfe, Charles T. "The Plasticity of Perception," Flash Art, July–September, 63–64 (reproduction)
2002
Farquharson, Alex, "Timewave Zero/ The Politics of Ecstasy," Frieze, March, 87 (reproduction) Olson, Marisa S. "Guide to Trust No. 2 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts," Artweek, May Perret, Mai-thu, "Lisa Beck and John Tremblay ," Frieze, January/February, 104 (reproduction) Guide to Trust No. 2, exhibition catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (reproduction)
2001
Cotter, Holland. "Another, Once Again, Many Times More," New York Times, Listings,11 May, E38
Ivy, Angus. Review of "3ness," Zingmagazine 14 (Winter), 210–11
2000
Andrews, Max and Dawn Fulcher. Preview of "Bubbles," Contemporary Visual Arts, July/August, 82 (reproduction) Dams, Jimi. "Lisa Beck," Purple 5 (Summer), 272–3 (reproduction) Goings On About Town, New Yorker, 11 January Critics' Picks, "Open the pod bay doors, Hal," Time Out NewYork, 28 December, 65
Liste 2000, The Young Art Fair, catalogue, Basel, Switzerland (reproduction)
1999
Braet, Jan. "Koel Amerikaans," Knack, 17 March, 77 (reproduction) Doove, Edith. "Verrasimgen uit Amerika," De Standaard, 3 February, 2 Jones, Jonathan R. Review of "Up Your Head," Contemporary Visual Arts, November/December, 67 (reproduction) Lambrecht, Luc. "Americaans en Toch Niet," De Morgen, 12 February, 14 Popelier, Bert. "Jonge Amerikanen," De Financieel Economische Tijd, 3 February, 12 "Mob Rules" (Review of "Up Your Head"), NY Arts, December "ANP: This Flight is Tonight," Zingmagazine 10 (Autumn), 170–1 (reproduction)
1998
Cotter, Holland. Review of "Yoyogaga," New York Times, 20 November, E43
Smith, Roberta, Review of "Utz," New York Times, 22 February
Recommended, Time Out New York, 12 April, 12
1997
Cotter, Holland. Review of "Material Girls," New York Times, 31 October
Levin, Kim. "Work in Progress – Art and Exhibitionism in Soho," Village Voice, 22 April
Rubinstein, Raphael. "On Broadway: Studios Without Walls," Art in America, June
1996
Levin, Kim. Village Voice, Choices, 6 March
Moody, Tom. Review of "Ab Fab," Art Papers, November/December
Short List, New Yorker, 11 March
1994
Hess, Elizabeth. "Garage Sale," Village Voice, 20 December
Levin, Kim. "Garage Sale," Village Voice, Choices, 20 December
Nickas, Robert. "Split Screen," BOMB , Summer (reproduction)
1992
Cotter, Holland. "Lisa Beck and Peter Dudeck," New York Times, 19 June
Schwartzman, Alan. Review of "Lisa Beck and Peter Dudeck," New Yorker, 15 June
1990
Red, exhibition catalogue with texts by Robert Nickas and Xavier Douroux, Galerie Christine & Isy Brachot, Brussels (reproduction)
1989
Brenson, Michael. Review of "Positive Show," New York Times, 24 February
Smith, Roberta. Review of American Fine Arts group exhibition, New York Times