My challenges in making this work are twofold.

One: to create work, in our studio, without using fossil fuels or adding to the demand on for capacity on the electrical grid. Our new shop is powered by photovoltaics and a battery system.   Working strictly solar has created limits or parameters in the process of making.

Two: inside of those energy parameters, to create work that challenges and improves my concept of art.   For me, still, formal aspects are crucial.  I am interested in stretching and manipulating common shapes and objects, adding internal detail and then obscuring access to that detail with surface treatment.

As I work to expand my vocabulary in art, I find these new objects oddly familiar and exciting.

Rick Beck, 2022

Artist | Rick Beck

The gallery will be open April 8 5-9pm as part of Art After Hours during EXPO CHICAGO