“ In Beck’s hands, her work becomes a metaphor for the interconnectedness of all things. She challenges conventional notions of place and representation while deftly juxtaposing the gradual passage of time with the immediate impressions left upon the surfaces she (re)configures. Through her varied practice, Beck invites viewers to contemplate the transient nature of existence and the enduring beauty that lies beneath/on/above the surface of our everyday lives.”
— Rachel Adams, Chief Curator & Director of Programs, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Interviews & essays /
DV Journal / Macro to Micro: Looking at Kim Beck’s Excavations by Rachel Adams, May 2024 /
EcoTheo Review / Ideal Cities by Kim Beck (full issue) by Taylor O. Thomas, Winter 2017 /
PBS Studios / The Art Assignment: Surface Test - Kim Beck with Sarah Urist Green, May 29, 2016 /
Yale University Radio / Interview with Kim Beck with Brainard Carey, June 24, 2016 /
BOMBLOG / Friends of the High Line: Lauren Ross & Kim Beck with Tabitha Piseno, April 19, 2011 /
High Line Art /Kim Beck, Space Available with Lauren Ross, March 2011 /
Vernissage TV / Kim Beck: Space Available / High Line Public Art, NYC March 2011 /
Catalogs & show links /
Pitch (Pitch – catalog) at Dimensions Variable, May 2024 /
The Golden Thread at BravinLee Programs, April 2024 /
In dreams I walk with you at Silver Eye Center for Photography, September 2023 /
Hereabouts at Concept Gallery, June, 2023 /
Stranger Things at Here, August 2022 /
Patches & Intersections at ca53776v2.gallery, Spring 2021 /
Here at Laumeier Sculpture Park, September 2021 /
The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings at Katherine E. Nash Gallery, January 2020 /
Don’t Touch My Circles (press release) at Catharine Clark Gallery, June 2019 /
Rock, Paper at Milton Art Bank, July 2019 /
You, if no one else at Arlington Arts Center, February 2018 /
Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journey 1967–2017 at UB Art Galleries, September 2017 /
Into the Weeds at North Dakota Museum of Art, August 2017 /
Home Economics at Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State University, June 2017
One-Way Trail at Blue Star Contemporary, March 2015 /
Monument to Cold War Victory at Cooper Union, October, 2014 /
Wildish at Mural Arts Philadelphia, October 2014 /
Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes at Walker Art Center, October 2009
Selected Press /
Miami New Times / 12 Must-See Miami Art Exhibits by Douglas Markowitz, May 8, 2024 /
The Architect’s Newspaper / Eight outdoor art experiences to explore by Matt Hickman, October 8, 2021 /
Squarecylinder.com / 'Don't Touch My Circles' @ Catharine Clark by David M. Roth, August, 2019 /
ASAP/J / Wanderlust, or How to Wander in and out of the Dark History of the Now by Jasmina Tumbas, December 14, 2017 /
Artforum / I-70 Sign Show with Anne Thompson, May 31, 2017 /
Pittsburgh Orbit / Weed and See: The Adjutant Murals and River Cleanup January 3, 2016 /
Pittsburgh City Paper / A Review of Repetition, Rhythm & Pattern at Space by Michelle Fried, June 24, 2015 /
Pittsburgh Post Gazette / Weeds to become art along Downtown riverwalkby Ivy Kuhrman, June 5, 2015 /
Pittsburgh Post Gazette /Art Review: Repetition, Rhythm & Pattern at Space by Kurt Shaw, June 3, 2015 /
San Antonio Express News / Kim Beck gives Botanical Garden characters by Steve Bennett, March 21, 2015 /
My San Antonio / 'One-Way Trail' Offers Different Views of Nature by Steve Bennett, March 23, 2015 /
San Antonio Current / 'One Way Trail' Adds Intrigue…by James Courtney, Mar 11, 2015 /
Temporary Art Review / Open Engagement: Place and Revolution (as author), May 6, 2015 /
NPR Marketplace Morning Report / Billboards surprise motorists with art instead of ads by Kristofor Husted, February 16, 2015 /
New York Times / 'Buy Local' Gets Creative by Randy Kennedy, August 4, 2013 /
New York Times / Art Imitates Indianapolis by Eve M. Kahn, January 16, 2013 /
The ArtBlog / Exurban Sprawl and the Built Environment by Alyssa Greenberg, February 15, 2012 /
Wallpaper / Section Two of New York's High Line park opens by Malaika Byng, Spring 2011 /
New York Times / Art is Fleeting, at Least When It's in the Sky by Elizabeth A. Harris, October 9, 2011 /
The Village Voice / Skywriting Freaking People Out Yesterday Was Just Art by Jen Doll, October 10, 2011 /
Flavorwire / Take a Cross-Country Public Art Road Trip by Rozalia Jovanovic, April 25, 2011 /
New York Times / In a Former Bank, Money Talks by Susan Hodara, April 23, 2011 /
Art in America / Kim Beck Riffs on Meatpacking Ads with Empty Signs by Leigh Anne Miller, March 2011 /
The ArtBlog / The People's Landscape by Libby Rosof, November 11, 2008 /
Pittsburgh City Paper / Kim Beck Looks All Around Us by Sherrie Flick, May 22, 2008 /
Art in America / Kim Beck: Center for the Arts Review by Leigh Anne Miller, February 2007 /
All Press /
Douglas Markowitz, “12 Must-See Miami Art Exhibits,” Miami New Times, May 8, 2024
Hilarie Sheets, ”Textile Artists Bring New Life…,” The New York Times, May 2, 2024
Rhea Nayyar, “Fiber Art Is the Binding Thread…,“ Hyperallergic, May 9, 2024
Carlie Porterfield, “The Golden Thread,” The Art Newspaper, , May 2, 2024
Kate Mothes, “‘The Golden Thread’ Traces the Rise of Textiles…,” Colossal, May 2024
Emmalyn Meyer, “The Golden Thread,” Untapped New York, May 2024
Vittoria Benzine, “Hotshot Gallerist Lexi Bishop Left New York and L.A…,” Artnet, Sept 30, 2022
Matt Hickman, “Eight outdoor art experiences,” The Architect’s Newspaper, Oct 8, 2021
Charles Donelan, “Under the Radar…,” The Santa Barbara Independent, May 11, 2021
David Lindquist, “Indy art historian's 'You Are an Artist'...,” Indianapolis Star, April 20, 2020
Remy Samuels, “Black Lives Matter Mural Downtown…,” Pittsburgh Magazine, June 22, 2020
Amanda Waltz, “Black Pittsburgh artists respond to graffiti,” Pittsburgh City Paper, June 09, 2020
Lauren England, “Mississippi’s Best Contemporary Art Galleries…” The Culture Trip, May 13, 2020
David Lindquist, “Indy art historian's 'You Are an Artist'...,” Indianapolis Star, April 20, 2020
David M. Roth, “Don’t Touch My Circles at Catharine Clark,” Square Cylinder, August 16, 2019
Mary Thomas, “Artists Who Teach,” Pittsburgh Post Gazette, September 21, 2018
Dominik Czechowski, “Review: Wanderlust…,” MAP Magazine, #42 Fissile States, January 2018
Taylor O. Thomas, “Ideal Cities by Kim Beck,” EcoTheo Review, Winter 2017
Jasmina Tumbas, “Wanderlust, or How to Wander…,” ASAP/Journal, December 14, 2017
Bruce Adams, “Wanderlust: Fifty Years Of Artistic Journeying,” Buffalo Spree, Oct 31, 2017
Jessica Casanova, WGRZ NBC Channel 2, “Did you see arrows in the sky,” August 20, 2017
Marialaura Ghidini, “Curatorial Reflection: #exstrange…,” Journal of Curatorial Studies, Vol 6, 2017
Anne Thompson, Video: “Anne Thompson talks about “I-70 Sign Show,” Artforum, May 31, 2017
Miriam La Rosa, “In conversation with … #exstrange,” Curating the Contemporary, April 24, 2017
Cristina Sousa Martínez, “Some thoughts of #posthuman curating,” Medium, April 12, 2017
Catherine Chapman, “Move Over, Ebay, #exstrange Is Bringing Online…,” Vice, March 4, 2017
Jennifer Baron, “10 miles, 3 rivers, 2 wheels and 6 works of art,” Next Pittsburgh, August 22, 2016
Brainard Carey,“Interview with Kim Beck,” Yale University Radio WYBCX, June 24, 2016
Dawn Law, “Out & About: 'City Sourcing',” Trib Live, March 16, 2016
Anne Thompson, “I-70 Sign Show,” Volume 6, Public Art Dialogue, Nov 2016
Claire Voon, “At Pulse Miami Beach, Plants, Plants Everywhere,” Hyperallergic, December 2, 2015
Michelle Fried, “A Review of Rhythm, Repetition & Pattern at Space,” City Paper, June 24, 2015
Mary Thomas, “Five Things We Love...,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 13, 2015
Ivy Kuhrman, “Weeds to become art…” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 5, 2015
Matthew Wein, “Riverlife Invites You...,” Next Pittsburgh, June 5, 2015
Kurt Shaw, “Rhythm, Repetition & Pattern at Space,” Pittsburgh Tribune, June 3, 2015
Ryan Schuessler, ‘Blah, blah, blah’? Billboard art show…,” Al Jazeera America, May 31, 2015
Staff Report, “'Repetition, Rhythm, and Pattern' on display at SPACE,” The Times, May 14, 2015
Steve Bennett, “Kim Beck gives Botanical Garden…” San Antonio Express-News, March 21, 2015
Steve Bennett, “One-Way Trail Offers Different Views of Nature” My San Antonio, March 23, 2015
James Courtney, “'One Way Trail' …,” San Antonio Current, March 11, 2015
Kristofor Husted, “Billboards Surprise With Art…,” Marketplace, NPR, Feb 16, 2015
Nancy Fowler, “I-70 Billboard Spotlights,” St. Louis NPR Public Radio, Dec 2, 2014
Alyssa Greenberg, “Kim Beck in Monument to Cold War Victory,” Artblog, Oct 7, 2014
Emma Edick, “Exploring 100 acres of the “not-so-secret” garden,” Butler Collegian, Sept 9, 2014
Dawn Chan, “All Across America…”, New York Times Style Magazine, Aug 18, 2014
Joe Marianek & Anne Thompson, “Q&A,” The Believer Magazine, June 30, 2014
Elena Goukassian, “Commissions in Brief,” Sculpture Magazine, Dec, 2013
Bill O’Driscoll, “Crowdsourced…” Pittsburgh City Paper, Aug 21, 2013
Randy Kennedy, “’Buy Local’ Gets Creative,” New York Times, Aug 4, 2013
Eve M. Kahn, “Art Imitates Indianapolis,” New York Times, Jan 16, 2013
Kris Scheifele, “The Financial Crisis and Other Natural Disasters,” Hyperallergic, Sept 20, 2012
Edith Newhall, “Galleries: …Exurban Landscape,” Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb 19, 2012
Alyssa Greenberg, “Exurban sprawl & the built environment,” theartblog.org, Feb 15, 2012
Zack Friedman, “Art/Reanimation Library,” BOMBlog, Jan 23, 2012
Iwan Baan, “High-Line Park,” e-architect, June 21, 2011
Malaika Byng, “Section Two of New York's High Line park opens,” Wallpaper Magazine, Spring 2011
Kim Beck & Lauren Ross, “Situating Sculpture in the Urban Landscape,” Public Art Dialogue, 2011
Flavorwire Staff, “Take a Cross-Country Public Art Road Trip,” Flavorwire, April 25, 2011
Kim Beck, “Artist Project: Landscape with Ruins,” Vol. 1, Public Art Dialogue, 2011
Cameron Cartiere, “Innovations in Art Parks,” Public Art Review, Fall/Winter 2011
“Artist Reviews: Kim Beck / In Her Own Words,” New York Arts Magazine, Nov, 2011
"The Lookout: Shows You Won't Want to Miss,” Art in America, Nov 3, 2011
Cindy Chun, “Kim Beck’s The Sky's the Limit,” The Architect’s Newspaper, Oct 11, 2011
Jen Doll, “Skywriting Freaking People Out Just Art,” TheVillage Voice, Oct 10, 2011
Elizabeth Harris, "Art Is Fleeting, When It's in the Sky,” New York Times. Oct 9, 2011
Elizabeth Lynch, “Commissions: Kim Beck,” Sculpture Magazine, Fall 2011
Ken Johnson, “Outdoor Sculptures on New York Streets,” New York Times, Aug 19, 2011
Chris Schmicker, "Seven Artists to Know Right Now,” City Unlisted, July 19, 2011
Susan Hodara, “In a Former Bank, Money Still Talks,” New York Times, April 24, 2011
Amy Plitt, “Public Art on the High Line,” TimeOut New York, April 20, 2011
Steve Lambert, “Artist Kim Beck puts vacant billboard…,” Anti-Advertising Agency, April 22, 2011
Tabitha Piseno, “Friends of the High Line,” Bomblog, April 19, 2011
“High Line Art: Kim Beck, Space Available,” Video, Artforum, March, 2011
Leigh Anne Miller, “Kim Beck Riffs on Meatpacking Ads…,” Art In America, March 1, 2011
Alexander Ferrando, “The High Line,” Flash Art International. March/April, 2011
Branden Klayko, “Space Available on the High Line,” The Architect’s Newspaper, Feb 28, 2011
Rochana Rapkins, “Neo-Nomads,” New York Times, Feb 24, 2011
Bill O'Driscoll, "Local Artist's Skywriting Venture" Pittsburgh City Paper, Sept 30, 2010
Murray Whyte, "Queen West has a Surprise in Store,” The Toronto Star, July 24, 2010
Judith Dobrzynski, “The High Line As Art Venue,” Arts Journal, March 7, 2010
Judith Dobrzynski, “Taking the High Line,” The Art Newspaper, March 5, 2010
Lauren Weinberg, “Sign of the Times,” Time Out Chicago, Issue 248, Nov 26, 2009
Alex Ebstein, “Learning the Trade: Maryland Art Place,” Baltimore City Paper, Nov 21, 2009
New American Paintings, #81, April/May, 2009
Victoria Donohoe, “Art and Environment,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 21, 2008
Libby Rosoff, “The People’s Landscape,” theartblog.org, Nov 11, 2008
Valery Oisteanu, "Prefabricated Art, Undesirable Surreality,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2008
Sherrie Flick, “Kim Beck Looks All Around Us,” Pittsburgh City Paper,May 22, 2008
Leigh Anne Miller, “Kim Beck / Center for the Arts,” Art in America, Feb 2007
Mary Thomas, “Art Review: Kim Beck,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 11, 2006
N.F. Karlins, “Drawing Notebook,” Artnet.com, July 2004
Jon W. Sparks, “MAX:03,”The Commercial Appeal, July 20, 2003
Cynnie Gaasch, “Reworking Concepts of Beauty,” ArtVoice, July 10-16, 2003
David Hall, “Memphis: Drive,” Art Papers, October 2002
Books & catalogs /
Sarah Urist Green, You Are an Artist, Penguin Random House, 2020
Stamatina Gregory & Yevgeniy Fiks, Monument to Cold War Victory, New York: Cooper Union, 2018
Rebekah Modrak & Marialaura Ghidini, #exstrange: A Curatorial Intervention, Ann Arbor: Mich., 2017
Amir Brito Cador, O livro de artista e a enciclopédia virtual, Brasil: Editora UFMG, 2016
Matt Bua & Max Goldfarb, Architectural Inventions, London: Laurence King Publishers: 2012
Rebekah Modrak with Bill Anthes, Reframing Photography: Theory and Practice, Routledge, 2010
Gerfried Stocker ed., The Network for Art Technology and Society… Austria: Hatje Cantz, 2009
Gerfried Stocker editor, Prix Ars Electronica, CyberArts 2009. Hatje Cantz: Austria, 2009
Steven & Mara Holt, Manufractured,The Conspicuous Transformation…, Chronicle Books, 2008
Andrew Blauvelt, Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2008