Possibility Chambers (2018) Robert C Beck and Sarah Max Beck PVC, post-consumer plastic, steel, electronics, wood, glass, horse tail rush, fiber optic grass, taro, canna, tiger nut, spider plant, various wetland volunteer plants, lemon balm, cilantro, aloe, katuk, monstera deliciosa, earth, water, rock dust, micro organisms, mycorrhizae, three southeastern leopard frog tadpoles, human urine [...]
To Fetch a Pail of Water (2018) Robert C Beck and Sarah Max Beck Ongoing installation research project, studioHydrostatic bioart lab, Museum of American Glass, Symbiotic Spheres, April-December 2018 Material list: Glass, wood, pvc, post-consumer plastic, aluminum, steel, electronics, John's urine, composting worms, strawberries, horse tail rush, venus fly traps, fiber optic grass, taro, [...]
The use of properly diluted fresh urine as a nutrient source for house and kitchen garden plants is a safe and effective practice that protects human life and promotes a healthy environment. While all extreme sounding to western culture, this practice has been common place for public works for decades in other countries. Fun [...]
Jerome Osentowski, founder of the Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI), leads a workshop. (2017) Biological Art Process The goal is not making art. It is living a life. Art is a result. -Robert Henri- Whether we are looking at Leonardo da Vinci's Mechanics of Man, Audubon’s Birds of America, or Wilson Bentley’s Snow [...]
In Addition to Permission: Electric Lifesaver Dino Blood II (2017) A collaborative bio-art installation by Sarah Max Beck and Robert C. Beck Water, plants, aquatic organisms, urine, salvaged lumber, hand-blown glass, post-consumer plastics, pvc, electronics and steel 9’ x 4’ x 8’ 555 Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Through our work, we explore the question of how [...]
HS2 (2016) Robert C. Beck Gelatin silver contact print 5 x 7 inches 6:30 pm. studio Hydrostatic, Brooklyn, NY Early August dusk settles in on the roof and there’s no film to be loaded as we are kicking back instead to, quite literally, enjoy the fruits of our labor with some peach mead Sarah [...]
Dear Friends and Family, (2016) Robert C. Beck and Sarah Max Beck Video 45 seconds Hydrostatic Shock Foreword The previous post, entitled Ready-made, touched on how the Dada art movement and Marcel Duchamp's work was almost certainly commentary on the turbulent political state of the world and how strangely similar our [...]
Ready-made (2016) Watercolor on paper 20 x 20 inches The first thing that springs to my mind when hearing the term “Ready-made” is the name Marcel Duchamp. He coined the term in the early twentieth century art movement, Dada, with the famed work entitled Fountain, (1917). Fountain was submitted to an exhibition organized by the Society of Independent Artists, which [...]
The Krasner (2015) Watercolor on paper 20 x 28 inches I love plants. The forms found within flora never cease to amaze me. Even with the most banal house plants, I want to know what's special about them. I want to discover the secret; the knowledge of the greenest green thumb which is generally, [...]
Hydrogen on the Left (2015) Watercolor on paper 20 x 28 inches Hydrogen, atomic number: 1 The first thing we are usually introduced to in Biology 101 is nitrogen. The classic textbook illustration of the nitrogen cycle, where the sun is shining through the sky over a smoking volcano, lightning bolts streak from cumulous [...]