JOHN BEECH | Across the Surface

We humans take things for granted: a street, a chair, the passage of time. How long since you really saw that alley, that tree? The Photo-Paintings of John Beech challenge our preconceptions, providing the jolt, the pause, that invites us to pay close attention. Beech's black and white photos of cityscapes, particularly overlooked items like dumpsters, become not the entire subject themselves, but ground for additional mark-making which confounds our sense of what a photo is, what a paintting is, and how we see art and the world. Across the Surface provides a survey of Beech"s Photo-Paintings from across the decades and dovetails with the launch of a new book about this body of work from Radius Books.