Dylan Beck
Visions In Clay Invitational
Website:
info@dylanjbeck.com
https://www.dylanjbeck.com
Biography:
Dylan Beck is an artist and educator living in Portland, OR where he works from his home studio making sculpture and utilitarian pottery. When he is not in the studio or classroom, Dylan likes to explore the vast natural landscape of the Pacific Northwest where you can find him camping, foraging, and fishing. Dylan’s reading interests lie in topics related to philosophy, environmental justice, and ecology. His artwork explores landscape and the built environment and often vacillates between veneration and admonishment as he invites his viewers to consider human’s role within the ecosystem and our relationship to natural resources. Dylan Beck has served as a professor and department head at Oregon College of Art and Craft and Kansas State University. He has been invited to many significant national and international exhibitions, including: Korean International Ceramic Biennale, South Korea; Sans Les Mains, France; NCECA Invitational, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO. His artworks are included in several public and private collections including the Everson Museum of Art and Hilton Curio Collection.
Filtered AF (2018)
clay type and firing method: Stoneware, cone 1 oxidation
Other materials: Ceramic, glaze, underglaze, glitter, digital print on vinyl
42”h x 70”w x 24”d
$8,500
This work points to photography, social media, enchantment, and futile attempts to recreate the wonderment of non-human landscapes. HDR, Instagram filters, etc., create a hyper-reality, re-presenting lived experiences through artifice upon artifice. The viewer is confronted with the consumption of the natural landscape particularly through the artifice of social media.
Hubbert Peak
Ceramic, underglaze, glaze, Cone 01 Oxidation
12”h x 13”w x 5”d
$1400
Transfiguration
Ceramic, glaze, paint, rocks, Cone 01 Oxidation
11”h x 13”w x 8”d
$1600
Lake of Fire
Ceramic, glaze, Cone 01 Oxidation
5”h x 10”w x 10”d
$1800