Rosalie Beck
medium: painting
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Contact information
3155 S Quincy Ave
Milwaukee, WI 53207
Email Address: rabeck1954@hotmail.com
Web site: rosaliebeck.com
Artist statement
There are several concerns that are present in my work regardless of the subject matter. Foremost is the interaction with the visual work and the effects of light. Light functions as both an agent of volume, playing across the surface of forms, and as an agent of mood. The balance of values and their emotional effect has become increasingly important to me in the past few years. Emphasis on darks and looking into the dark is to evoke mystery, while looking towards light is used to create a sense of longing and/or transcendence.
Color in the work is naturalistically derived but altered or intensified for emotional effect. The layering of color stands for the metaphor for the rich and continuous feedback between artist and subject. Many of my still life paintings and pastels over the years have contained elements of vanitas, commenting on the transience and fragility of life. Recently, I have become more focused on portraiture in my work.
Biography
Rosalie Beck has an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has taught art at the college level for many years. Currently she is teaching Observational Drawing at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and Drawing at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also taught for two years in Bangkok in the MIAD Vajiravudth College Program.
She has exhibited her oil paintings, pastels and watercolors in numerous regional and national shows such as the 15th Annual National Watercolor Exhibition in Colorado, 41st Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture in Corpus Christi Texas, Women in the 90’s at Stebbin’s Galleries in Cambridge, Mass and The National Small Painting exhibition at Boise State University.
She has also had many one-person exhibitions, including the Lakeshore Gallery in Shorewood (Milwaukee), New Visions Gallery(Marshfield), Anderson Art Center in Kenosha, SEAMEO-SPAFA in Bangkok, Thailand, Manitowoc Fine Art Gallery at UW-Manitowoc, Edith Barrett Gallery at Utica College of Syracuse University in Utica, New York and Greene County Council on the Arts in Catskill, New York. Currently, her work is represented by Champeau Pioneer Gallery in Sister Bay, Wis.