Background
Beck"s "social conscience grew up with him about 20 blocks from the famous suburban Love Canal eco-disaster in Niagara Falls, New New York" Beck received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Buffalo.
Beck"s "social conscience grew up with him about 20 blocks from the famous suburban Love Canal eco-disaster in Niagara Falls, New New York" Beck received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Buffalo.
In 1986 and an Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992.
Martin Beck is a noted artist who received two New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships, (1994, 2000). He is featured on the Discover Jersey Arts Artists Gallery. Beck"s exhibitions have been reviewed in ArtPapers, The New York Times, The Sunday Star Ledger and has also been featured in American Artist, (July 1999).
Beck"s work can be found in private collections primarily in New York, New York, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Santa Monica, California. His portrait commissions include corporate clients such as Carnegie Mellon University Highlands Circle, and private clients.
Chamot Gallery, Modern Romance. 3/15/2001 - 4/29/2001.
Jersey City, New Jersey. Discover Jersey Arts, Discover Jersey Arts Online Showcase. 2/1/2001 - 3/1/2001. Trenton, New Jersey. Consolidated Arts at Historic Downtown South.I.D. Office Gallery, Black Drawings and Other Works.
9/25/2000 - 12/14/2000.
Jersey City, New Jersey. Mercer County Community College, Modern Romance. 1/9/1999 - 2/11/1999. Trenton, New Jersey. Jersey City Museum, White.
3/11/1998 - 5/30/1998.
Jersey City, New Jersey. David J. Brodsky Gallery, Recent Work. 9/26/1995 - 10/27/1995.
Princeton, New Jersey. Birke Gallery, Recent Work. 9/1/1995 - 9/21/1995.
Huntington, West Virginia. The Contemporary Arts Center, Recent Work.
6/7/1995 - 8/6/1995. Cincinnati, Ohio. Hewlitt Gallery, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. 4/22/1992 - 7/29/1992.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Carson Street Gallery, Recent Work.
4/14/1992 - 4/20/1992. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito 2009, 5/2/2009. Santa Monica, California. MMMart, medana.art pomlad 2009.
4/18/2009 - 4/25/2009.
Medana, Slovenia. University Art Gallery, Department of Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition. 10/1/2008 - 11/21/2008.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito 2008. 5/3/2008. Santa Monica, California. The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Incognito 2007.
4/28/2007. Santa Monica, California. Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon, 100% Centennial.
1/20/2006 - 3/5/2006. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Santa Monica Museum of Art, incognito 2005. 12/10/2005. Santa Monica, California. Allegheny College Penelec - Bowman - Megahan Art Galleries, 8-Hour Drawings.
9/6/2005 - 10/4/2005.
Meadville, Pennsylvania. Artists Image Resource, The War Room. 10/15/2004 - 10/17/2004.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Hunterdon Museum of Art, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition 1999 & 2000. 12/3/2000 - 1/28/2001.
Clinton, New Jersey. catalogue
Concept Gallery, 30 Curators.
2/10/2000 - 4/8/2000. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. City Without Walls, 18th Annual Metro Show. 1999. Newark, New Jersey. Museo de Art Moderno de la Republica Dominica, Louisiana Linea Dibujos Contemporaneos.
7/1/1998 - 8/30/1998.
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. catalog
Side Street Projects, Splice. 9/20/1997 - 12/15/1997.
Santa Monica, California. Catalog
Bridge Cafe, In the Shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. 9/26/1996 - 10/30/1996.
New York, New New York MMC, Figure and Symbol.
9/10/1996 - 10/12/1996. New York, New New York Gallery 313, Sick Again. 6/28/1996 - 7/19/1996.
New York, New New York Anderson Gallery, X-Sightings.
5/17/1996 - 7/17/1996. Buffalo, New New York Noyes Museum, 1994 - 1995 Fellowship Exhibition.
1/21/1996 - 3/24/1996. Oceanville, New Jersey. Catalogue
Kunsthälle Hamburg, The Young Riders.
2/1/1994 - 3/1/1994. Hamburg, Germany.
The Contemporary Arts Center, The Figure as Fiction. 12/3/1993 - 1/23/1994. Cincinnati, Ohio. Catalogue
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Group A. 7/24/1992 - 8/16/1992.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Art Beyond.
3/23/1991 - 4/21/1991. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.