Kim Beck

Kim Beck is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator raised in Littleton, Colorado and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She explores what it is to be alive and in the moment; to be here—grounded and ungrounded, present and distracted, whole and torn. Beck’s work starts at home in Pittsburgh, with her garden, studio, and back alleyway, where she sources stones, gravel, potholes, and asphalt for cyanotypes, rubbings, and photographs on fabric and paper. With torn edges, soft grids, and ghostly echoes of rocks and pebbles, Beck’s work celebrates the moments in life where plans go awry, where the residue of something lost is still present. Beck taught at Alfred University, Memphis College of Art and Rhodes College before accepting her current position in The School of Art at Carnegie Mellon.