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David Beck
(
American
,
1953
–
2018
)
Artworks
Biography
Timeline
1953
Born Muncie, IN
1971–1972
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1973–1976
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, B.F.A.
Exhibitions
2008
Gallery Group, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2006
MVSEVM, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. (solo)
2004
La Naturecanique, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000–2002
Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. Traveled to: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale AZ; P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Queens, NY; Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson DeLong, organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.
1999
Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Neshui Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1989–1999
L'Opera, The National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (solo)
1998
L'Opéra, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1993–1996
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY
1994
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY (solo)
1994
Darwin and Darwinism: Exhibition on Natural and Cultural History, Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden, Germany
1993
Fauna & Figures: The World According to David Beck, National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC (solo)
1993
The Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, FL (solo)
1990–1992
National Museum of American Art Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
1990
Iridescence, The Bruce Museum Greenwich, CT
1977–1987
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY (solo)
1986
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY
1986
Homage to Joseph Cornell, Silvermine Art Center New Canaan, CT
1985
"This Is Not a Pipe Organ", Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
1985
Allan Stone Gallery New York, NY
1983
Works of Fantasy & Imagination, , Thorpe Intermedia Gallery Peekskill, NY
1979
Thirty Years of Box Construction, Sunne Savage Gallery Boston, MA
1978
Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, IN
1977
Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY
1976
New Talent Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
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