SPACE AVAILABLE

For this project, Beck created large flat wooden sculptures propped up with steel armatures and placed on urban rooftops along the High Line in New York City and earlier in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Based on photographs of billboards and built like theatrical stage sets, each sculpture created the illusion of a skeletal billboard in perspective. Even with their large size (the sculptures ranged from 8x8 feet to 12x20 feet), they nearly blended into their surroundings. Painted black, they became drawings against the sky—silhouettes and ghosts of a type of structure no longer welcome in the high-rent meatpacking district. These were commissioned by Friends of the Highline, NYC and Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.