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BORN        

1957      Albuquerque, New Mexico

 

EDUCATION

1983      Portland School of Art, Maine

  

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024      Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA

2022      Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA

2021      Sue Greenwood Fine Art, “Straight to the Heart” solo exhibition, Laguna Beach, CA

2020      Summer Breeze Group Exhibition, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA

2019      Sue Greenwood Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

               Opening. Seattle Art Fair 2019, Patricia Rovzar Gallery

               George Billis Gallery, NY

2018      “American Narratives”, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA

               Seattle Art Fair

               Trees Place Gallery, Orleans, MA

               “Untold Stories”, Sue Greenwood Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2017      25th Anniversary Group Show, Rovzar Gallery, Seattle WA

               “Home”, Oceanside Museum of Art, CA 

               Palette to Palate Invitational, Laguna Beach Art museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2014      For Real? Magical Realism in American Art, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2013      23rd Annual Miniatures and More Juried Exhibition, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

2010      “Painting From Life” the works of Mark Beck, Brian O’Connor and Leo Neufeld. Sponsored by the City of Albuquerque, South Broadway Cultural Center
               Los Ranchos Studio Art Tour, Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico
               Mount Desert Island Invitational, Maine
               San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, California
               The 2010 Los Angeles Art Show

2009      “24 Square”, Exhibit at Tom Paul Fine Art, Beverly Hills, California LA Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center
               Santa Barbara Individual Artists Award, Santa Barbara, CA
               The Santa Barbara Individual Artists Awards, “Reflections and Projections”, Channing Peake Gallery, CA

2008      Toronto International Art Fair, Canada; LA Art Show, Santa Monica California

2007      LA Art Show at Barker Hangar, Los Angeles, CA
               Winter Group Show, J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
               US Artists, Philadelphia

2006      Chicago Art
               J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
               US Artists

2005      J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY
                US Artists

2004      Chicago Art at the Navy Pier
               Realism Invitational, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NW
               US Artists

2003      11th Annual Juried “Albuquerque Contemporary”, Albuquerque Museum, NW
               Millicent Rogers Museum. 14th Annual Juried Portrait Show, Taos, NM
               10th Anniversary Show, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
               Vault Gallery

2002      Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
               Vault Gallery

1999      “Under One Roof” group show with Robert Cottingham, Long Beach Museum of Art, , Long Beach, CA.
               Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
               Vault Gallery

1997      Santa Barbara Printmakers Association – Juried Show, Honorable Mention.

1996      Pasadena Twin Palms Gallery, California, “The Pasadena Bridge Show featuring Mark Beck and Richard Bunkell”, Pasadena Twin Palms Gallery, CA

1994      “Three California Realists”, Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
               LA Art EXPO

1993      Chicago Art at the Navy Pier
               LA Art EXPO

1992      Tokyo International Art Show, Tokyo

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

American Art Collector Magazine, July 2018 Issue.

American Art Collector Magazine, July 2017 Issue.

Marin Magazine – Extraordinary Living, June 2008, Cover of Magazine – Painting: “Cape Wind- Wellfleet”

American Art Collector Magazine, December 2007 Issue and July 2006 Issue

Coast Magazine, April 2005 Issue. Collector Barclay Butera Interior Design featuring Mark Beck paintings, pg. 88.

Country Home Magazine, Sept. 2005 issue. Hollywood Sequel, A Vintage Los Angeles Home becomes an elegant backdrop…” pgs. 73-75.

Southwest Art Magazine, Dec. 2004 issue, cover story, The Homing Instinct: Painting Houses and Other Structures Allows Mark Beck to
Comment on the Human Condition, by Editor Bonnie Ganglehoff. Pgs. 92-95.

Crosswinds Weekly, Albuquerque, NM, August 14, 2003, pg. 26, Art Scene review by L. Polisar.

Albuquerque Journal, August 17, 2003, page F6, Art Review by Wesley Pulkka.

Metropolitan Home Magazine, Della Robia Italia, ad campaign, May 2003, May 2002, Issues. Featured painting: “Industrial Building.”

Albuquerque Alibi, August 21, 2003, pg. 25, Art Review by Steven Robert Allen.

Southwest Art Magazine, March 2001 issue. – Named “Top Contemporary Realist” with feature article.

Coast Magazine, Cover, May 1999 Issue. Featured painting on Cover: “House by the Sea.”

Los Angeles Times, (with TV series NYPD Blue) December 8, 1997. Interview with Director Paris Barclay. Barclay requested permission to
film a painting he owns of Beck’s for his TV series finale and was photographed with this painting for the LA Times interview. Featured
painting: “Remote Facility.”

Pasadena Magazine, cover, Winter 1996 Issue and Art Review of Twin Palms show, Pasadena Bridge. Painting: “Contemplating Suicide Bridge.”

Orange County Magazine, June 1992 issue. Feature article “Spectacular Homes of Orange County,” Painting: “Industrial Building.”

Better Homes and Gardens, April 2005 Issue- The West Coast Collector, page 152

Painting featured in HBO’s “In Treatment” with Gabriel Byrne, Painting titled “Truro Barns” used in two episodes – April 2009.

 

 

AWARDS

Albuquerque Museum, Annual Juried Show, Miniatures and More Exhibition, Selected “More Artist 2014”

First Place, Los Ranchos Studio Arts Tour, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2009

People’s Choice Award, Los Ranchos Studio Arts Tour, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2008

First Place, Painting, Santa Barbara Arts Fund Individual Artists Award, Juried Competition, 1999

Honorable Mention, Santa Barbara Print Maker’s Association, Self-portrait, Woodblock Print, 1998

First Place, Painting, Bank of America Achievement Award, 1974