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Bill Beckley  1946, US
Rank (2009): 4952 
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Artwork:
Bill Beckley, O.T
O.T, 1977
Fesel Modern Art

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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 9
Germany 7
Korea (Republic) 4
France 4
Switzerland 3




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Dennis Oppenheim  142 7
Vito Acconci  59 6




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  Rosenbaum Contemporary, USA 3
  Tony Shafrazi Gallery, USA 3
  Galerie Daniel Templon, France 3




 Biography:  Please report missing Information

1946 Born in Hamburg, PA (US)


BFA Kutztown State University, PA

MFA Tyler School of Art, Temple University
1979 National Endowment for the Arts

1986 New York Council of the Arts

1997 Pollack-Krasner Grant


An important American contemporary artist, Bill Beckley is associated with various recent art movements, such as STORY ART, CONCEPTUALISM and PHOTO-NARRATIVE ART.

He uses large photographic images and text in a more accessible and amusing context than his conceptual counterparts who are more concerned with the philosophical use of language and image. Beckley has succeeded by making his personal iconography both interesting and mysterious. Bill Beckley's magic is in this dreamy maze of fact and fantasy. His inquiry into romanticism turn our senses to a higher sphere of thought and feeling. Beckley´s artworks include a highly acute sensitivity that allows the viewer to penetrate and uncover the inverted sensual references, distortions and fallacies that are a synthesis and a barometer for our notions of romance. Using this magical osmosis, Beckley can charge these rather subtle pieces with an electric current of psychic energy. He can convey the whisper of a dream, a scrap of a letter, a recollection of an incomplete poem that vaporizes into the recesses of the senses. Art has always been a testing ground for new ideas and the most renowned artists have always been those who by resolving current contemporary visual problems successfully have developed new references in art.

Beckley understands art history and knows that all problems relating to space, color and form have been resolved. He has combined new and old vocabulary references to create an art form which is peculiarly his own. His work has the magnetic majesty that can split open the secrets of a suspended moment in time. One always comes away from a Beckley painting bewildered, enriched and a little wiser.

Bill Beckley's work has been included in the Whitney Museum of American Art 1979 Biennial, an invitational survey of the most important and provocative American paintings done over the past two years.

Exhibitions – Selection
2000
Selected works 1970-1999, John Gibson Gallery, New York (solo)
Portnoy and Marianne Vitale, White Box Gallery, NY
Narrative, Studio G7, Bologna
Sammlung Hoffman, Berlin
Daimler-Benz collection, Berlin

1999
Sammlung Falckenberg Museum de bildenden Kunst, Leipzig
17 Contemporary Artists from America, Italy and Mexico, The Menile Collection, TX

Collection:
Museum of Modern Art, NY
The Guggenheim Museum, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
 
Public exhibitions  31  Please report missing Information



 Solo shows   10

2008
   Bill Beckley - Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL

2007
   Bill Beckley - Dervishes - Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul
   Bill Beckley - Dervishes - Dorfman Projects, New York City, NY

2006
   Bill Beckley - Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL

2001
   Bill Beckley - Fourteen Stations - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY

1999
   Bil Beckley - Taché-Lévy, Brussels

1993
   Text Factory - Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto

1986
   Bill Beckley - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1981
   Bill Beckley - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1977
   Bill Beckley - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris


 Group shows   21

2009
   cycle rolywholyover, septième et dernier épisode - JEFFMUTE - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
   Drei. Das Tryptichon in der Moderne - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart

2008
   YESTERDAY - TODAY - TOMORROW - Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
   In the photographic image - The Columns, Seoul

2007
   Art Market Now - The Columns, Seoul
   The Collection - Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul

2006
   Fall exhibition group show - Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
Description and image  Medium Fotografie - Stampa, Basel

2005
   Area '70 - Cannaviello, Milan

2004
   From The 70ies - Galerie M + R Fricke - Berlin, Berlin
Description  Behind the facts interfunktionen - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona

2003
   Fotografie, Video, Mixed Media. DaimlerChrysler Contemporary zu Gast - Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen

2002
   Made in USA - Ludwig Galerie - Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen

2001
   Au rendez-vous des amis (La ligne seule) 2 - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva

2000
Description and image  Critic as Grist - White Box, New York City, NY

1989
   Photographie - - Galerie M + R Fricke - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf (closed, 2006)

1988
   Summer Group Show - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY

1987
   Bill Beckley, Mark Dagley, Olivier Mosset - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY

1977
   American Narrative/Story Art: 1967–1977 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel

1972
   Yvon Lambert Actualité d'un Bilan - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris

 Dealer Directory  9

Germany

 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
www.galerie-fesel.deFesel Modern Art, Sonsbeck 

Italy

 Galleria Milano, Milan
 Studio Trisorio - Napoli, Naples

Korea (Republic)

 Erl Gallery, Seoul
 Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Seoul

USA

 Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
 John Gibson Gallery, New York City, NY
 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY


 Public collections  7   Please report missing Information


France

 Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne

Germany

 ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
 Sammlung Hoffmann, Berlin
 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
 Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm

Switzerland

 Schaulager, Münchenstein / Basel

United Kingdom

 Tate Britain, London (England)


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