Bill Beckley
During the Seventies, Bill Beckley was one of the founders and protagonists of the Narrative Art movement and a member of the 112 Greene Street group which arose in response to the Minimalism of Robert Morris, Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. He has always employed various techniques and materials in association with texts and images which, at times, have also been used in performances and installations.
In addition to historical works such as Myself as Washington (1969), Cake Story (1974), Paris Bistro (1975), Mao Dead (1976), Kitchen (1977), Deirdre’s Lip, (1978) and Shoulder Blade (1978), considered veritable manifestos of Narrative Art, water-colours and preparatory studies will also be exhibited.
Through the use of images marked by a high visual impact and iconic texts, each of these works opens the gateway to our imagination and plunges us into a story which intertwines fragments of experiences, personal memories, historical excerpts and other narrations.
The exhibited photographic images are the most recent examples of the no-longer-in-use Cibachrome process which Beckley choose for its sensual rendering and purity of colour.