Rick Beck

Rick Beck

Rick Beck has an M.F.A. in Glass from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and a B.A. in Art from Hastings College, Hastings, NE, Emphasis on glass. He lives in Spruce Pine, NC and shares a glass studio with his wife. Rick was awarded a visual arts fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Coun-cil, followed by a National Endow-ment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts fellowship from the Southern Arts Federation in 1995. Rick has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington Penland School of Craft in North Carolina among other places.

Selected permanent collections Rick Beck is in include the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC; Fletcher, Barnhart, White Corp., Charlotte, NC; Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC; McDonald’s Corporate Collection; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; The Palley Collection, Miami, FL; Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI and XL Screw Corporation, Wheeling, IL.

“I am interested in playing volumes of mass against details by extracting and exaggerating the things I find interesting. Ultimately the work should chal-lenge the eye and the mind.” – Rick Beck

Rick Beck

Rick Beck has an M.F.A. in Glass from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL and a B.A. in Art from Hastings College, Hastings, NE, Emphasis on glass. He lives in Spruce Pine, NC and shares a glass studio with his wife. Rick was awarded a visual arts fellowship by the North Carolina Arts Coun-cil, followed by a National Endow-ment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts fellowship from the Southern Arts Federation in 1995. Rick has taught at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington Penland School of Craft in North Carolina among other places.

Selected permanent collections Rick Beck is in include the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC; Fletcher, Barnhart, White Corp., Charlotte, NC; Glasmuseum, Ebeltoft, Denmark; Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC; McDonald’s Corporate Collection; Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; The Palley Collection, Miami, FL; Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI and XL Screw Corporation, Wheeling, IL.

“I am interested in playing volumes of mass against details by extracting and exaggerating the things I find interesting. Ultimately the work should chal-lenge the eye and the mind.” – Rick Beck

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