Kim Beck "Everything Must Go"

Mixed Greens Gallery

poster for Kim Beck "Everything Must Go"

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Mixed Greens announces a timely window installation by Kim Beck. The site-specific piece will involve a cacophony of hand-drawn for sale, for rent, clearance and similarly brazen signs in the ground floor and first floor windows.

In 2008, Beck witnessed the beginning of the economic downturn when signs advertising vacancies began appearing on houses and storefront windows. Placards meant to announce a sale, liquidation or foreclosure have since become commonplace and easily ignored—ubiquitous in our current landscape.

For years, Beck has used images of architecture and landscape to make artworks that survey peripheral and suburban spaces, ignoring classical and picturesque elements to concentrate on the banal scenery one navigates in everyday life. Her work urges a reconsideration of the built environment—the peculiar street signs, gas station banners, overgrown weeded lots and self-storage buildings—bringing the ordinary and routine into focus.

In Everything Must Go! the result is a jarring reality-check that puts Mixed Greens and all of Chelsea up for sale. Her drawings are stacked and competing for space in an installation that mimics the surrounding urban landscape and a general feeling of unease. The work provides a thoughtful consideration of our current economic, artistic, political and visual landscapes. As Heather Pesanti writes in a recent essay: “Beck’s gentle and delicately meticulous use of materials imbues her work with an elegantly beautiful artistic aesthetic that belies its disenchanted beginnings.”

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Schedule

from October 15, 2009 to December 13, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-11-12 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Kim Beck

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