Julie Beck
Through still life and portraiture, I use painting to create accessible work that relates the innate desire to connect. By manipulating design, composition, and narrative, I am able to intimate ideas that are either preconceived or find themselves in the process. Whether poetic or polemical, my work strives to leave an impact on viewers that leaves them asking questions about the connections we find around ourselves.
My paintings are representational in nature, but often surreal in composition and design. They are both familiar and unexpected. While grounded in reality using both scale and tromp l'oeil realism, I play with the viewers experience of both the two dimensional plan of the painting surface and three dimensional space it implies. I intend for each viewer to have an individual experience that evolves over the time. The longer you look, the more unfolds.
Selected Works
