Eyes
Center for Maine Contemporary Art•May 13, 2026 — Sep 06, 2026
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Bianca Beck is well known for works that refuse the distinction between painting and sculpture, creating abstract forms that gesture towards the figure in papier-mâché that become three-dimensional supports for expressive marks. Covered in DayGlo pink and purple, acid green, shimmering cerulean, and jewel-toned blue, the combined force of their shapes and colors generates an intense, steely joy, suggesting hybrid descendants of Paul Klee, Joan Mitchell, and Keith Haring. Featuring five new works that loom over the viewer like benign sentinels or beloved offspring grown miraculously large, this exhibition opens a new chapter in Beck’s exploration of kinship, dissent, hybridity, and the plurality of selfhood.
Beck’s art can be understood as an expansive journey through the ethical and psychological dimensions of being with others—one informed by but not fully encompassed by their experience of queer parenthood in an un-gendered family. As the face-to-face encounter is a primary site of…
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Eyes
Center for Maine Contemporary Art•May 13, 2026 — Sep 06, 2026
Press Release
Bianca Beck is well known for works that refuse the distinction between painting and sculpture, creating abstract forms that gesture towards the figure in papier-mâché that become three-dimensional supports for expressive marks. Covered in DayGlo pink and purple, acid green, shimmering cerulean, and jewel-toned blue, the combined force of their shapes and colors generates an intense, steely joy, suggesting hybrid descendants of Paul Klee, Joan Mitchell, and Keith Haring. Featuring five new works that loom over the viewer like benign sentinels or beloved offspring grown miraculously large, this exhibition opens a new chapter in Beck’s exploration of kinship, dissent, hybridity, and the plurality of selfhood.
Beck’s art can be understood as an expansive journey through the ethical and psychological dimensions of being with others—one informed by but not fully encompassed by their experience of queer parenthood in an un-gendered family. As the face-to-face encounter is a primary site of…
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