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WhiteSpot Studio                        Harpswell, Maine   February 1 - July 31, 2015


July 31, 2015
Pleased to welcome UK artist Richard Devereux to the Residency. 

July 2015
"Farewell to an idea...
Purpose... Fills the room.
...with none of the prescience of oncoming dreams..."

-Walllace Stevens
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                                  WhiteSpot Studio, Harpswell, Maine


June 2015

" in the grey shoreward
advance of the waves
far out a lonely
instant of grey
arrestment and enquiry"

- Thomas A. Clark

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UPTICK, 2015 Oil, Mineral on aluminum panel 12 inches x 12 inches


May, 2015
"Beyond the genius of the sea..."
-Wallace Stevens
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Untitled Blue painting, 2015 oil, mineral on canvas 40 inches x 48 inches

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Untitled Painting, Color Blocks Oil on Canvas, 60 inches x 84 inches


April 13, 2015 

An amazing conversation in BOMB Magazine between Bill Jensen and John Yau.  Their words are so viable to me right this instant.  They discuss change as artists, fitting in and not, and the absolute bravery it takes to face the studio day after day.  Alone.

PictureUntitled Dark Painting, oil on canvas, 60 inches x 84 inches 2015
April 9, 2015

Working on a group of paintings for months now, paintings that are challenging both my relationship to surface and to materials. 

These are large 'big-arm' oil paintings -- four on aluminum panels 58 inches x 40 inches, and a single canvas 60 inches x 84 inches.  It is encouraging to print the words even, raw anticipation of open fields waiting... !  More difficult, I am finding, in actual practice.

My mind set is naturally toward the minimal, less typically toward AbX.  But its there, I am open to it, I don't even want to tell anyone.

I keep a distance, distance is my stronghold. The work must evolve without preconception.  Yet this winter I have found my studio to be deeply personal, and passionate -- subjective, in the midst of working with this particular mass of work.  I am unable to separate myself from these surfaces.  A distance is narrowing.



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Untitled Painting, oil on canvas, 60 inches x 84 inches 2015


April 3, 2015      Figure Ground

These early days of spring seem to go hand-in-hand with my subliminal repose:  one moment up, one moment low; sun, then snow, then melt; the paint goes on, it vanishes, it appears.  My vision is constantly transformed.

I feel pleased  
uncertain  
afraid
confident

lost

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April Studio


March 2015

"The mind cannot always live in a 'divine ether'.  The lark cannot always sing at heaven's gate.  There must exist a place to spring from -- a refuge from the heights, an anchorage of thought... "                            - Wallace Stevens


Thank you, Marion, for passing this residency on to me.



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Shellac Ink on Paper 20 inches x 20 inches
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Shellac Ink on Paper 20 inches x 20 inches
I am a painter.

And maybe even, when I am lucky, a poet.

I live and work by the sea on a quiet shore on the coast of Maine.  Here within an extremity of elements, my perceptions are dictated by the very real architectonics of nature -- waves, reflections, refractions, meanderings -- vital motions -- delineating and enveloping an existence. I have been beneath these skies, walking these beaches, swimming in this cold salt water my entire life.  This is my place.

                                - Kate Beck, 2015
                                    




CONTACT ME: katebeckstudio(at)gmail.com
www(dot)katebeckstudio(dot)co


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Shellac Ink on Paper 8 inches x 8 inches
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Shellac Ink on Paper 8 inches x 8 inches

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