Lisa Beck: Rising and Falling
NEW YORK, NY.- Elizabeth Dee is presenting Lisa Beck’s new paintings. This series examines the relationship between the observable aspects of reality, like landscape or the body, and the aspects that are too vast or too tiny to see, or grasp completely, like space or atomic physics, that necessarily become abstractions. These paintings are the means to visualize the place where these different aspects meet or interact, and that place is a shifting point, as our understanding of the world is constantly challenged and changed by new knowledge.
Rising and Falling introduces a set of experiments, a body of work made of a very condensed set of elements: circles, areas of color, lines - all of which have resonances and references which belie their simplicity. The most prevalent motif is the circle in all its forms and references: spheres, voids, cells, selves, stars, atoms, specificity, endlessness. A point can be an anchor, a hole, or a world. Color is dark, light, solid, transparent, emotional, material. An edge is a boundary between two or more entities - hard, blurred, transparent. A line is a path, a divider, a cut, a floor, a ceiling, a sky, a ground.
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