John Beech
That and This: New Work
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1964 Winchester, England
Lives and works in New York
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
The Space Surrounding, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
Likelihood / Unlikelihood, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France
2011
85-87 FBG. St. Martin (with Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire), Paris, France
John Beech: Door to the Window, Haus der Kunst St. Josef, Solothurn, Switzerland
The State of Things, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
John Beech: A selection of recent works, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
John Beech Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2010
John Beech: Works for a Wall, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2009
Incidents: Drawings and Sculpture, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain
John Beech and John Zurier, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2008
Obscure / Reveal, John Beech and Edward Albee, Peter Blum Soho, New York, NY
Nohow, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2007
John Beech:That and This, New Work, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2006
John Beech, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
John Beech :Project Space, G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
John Beech: New Work, Sculptures & Drawings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Recent Sculpture and Large Scale Drawings, Peter Blum, New York, NY
New Sculpture made on Site and Drawings, Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
2004
John Beech Works 1989 - 2004, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
John Beech from the Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
John Beech New Work, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
John Beech - New Sculptures and Paintings (with John Meyer - Drawings), Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2003
Peter Blum, New York, NY
Archive Inc. Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Brooklyn Container, Brooklyn Central Public Library, New York, NY
(+ Collaborative Drawings with Simon Lee and Christopher Lesnewski)
2002
Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2001
Rotating Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2000
John Beech: New Work, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Alexander Nagel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Built on Site, TD156, San Francisco, CA
1999
Petra Bungert Projects / CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1998
The Locker Plant, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
1997
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1996
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994
Miles Bellamy-113 Crosby Street, New York, NY
1993
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1992
Sculpture Built On The Premises, Upaya Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1990
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1989
Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Drawing a Line in the Sand, Peter Blum SoHo, New York, NY
Eretai: (John Beech, Lael Marshall, David Rabinowitch, Michael Voss), Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2011
Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Long Curve. 150 years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Carte Blanche à Clare Kenny: Odds and Ends, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Paper Variables, Dieu Donné, New York, New York
John Beech & Kathrin Kunz, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2010
Human Rites, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
The Artist & the Photograph, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland
Metropolis, Galerie M & R Fricke, Belin Germany
Reflection, Peter Blum Soho, New York, NY
My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, La Station, Nice, France
Quantos Queres, Marz-galeria, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Des Mondes Voisins, Galerie Giesle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Common Ground: Color, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Sante Fe, NM
30 x 30 cm project, Mcnay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Glissements de terrain, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire,
ma couleur préférée, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Art Unlimited 10, Art Basel 40, Basel, Switzerland
PS 1999-2009, PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prints, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2008
Miniaturization, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Paper, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Begin Again Right Back Here, White Columns, New York, NY, Curated by B.Wurtz
Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
My Eyes Keep Me In Trouble, Sydney College of the Arts Gallery (SCA), Sydney, Australia, Organized by CCNOA Brussels
-traveled to: The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
+ de réalité, École Régionale des beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Annual Invitational Exhibition of Visual Art, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2007
Ahnlichkeiten - Hommage å Fortuny, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Rückblick Review: 10 years Berlin, M & R Fricke, Berlin, Germany
Summertime, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Pas de Soucis…, (Curator: Petra Bungert, CCNOA Brussels), Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France
Remix: Small Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Curated by Claire Schneider
Der Zweite Blick, Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Pierogi Flatfiling, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
Off the Wall, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Remix: Robert Therrien, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
March Madness, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
The Photograph as Canvas, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
4 From New York, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Dumpster, (video in collaboration with Einar Westerlund), Screen 1, CCNOA, Brussels
My Eyes Keep Me in Trouble, Nieuwe Video, Haarlem, Netherlands,Organized by Tilman
Additiv Parallel Synchron Werke der Sammlung, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
MinimalPop, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Bird Watching, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sculptures, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Summertime, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
STST : Rack 1 - 2006 Brussels, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Ordnung und Verfuhrung, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland, Curated by Dorothea Dtrauss
Spring fever, Charlotte Jackson Jine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Two Step, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, Organized by Petra Bungert
Eccentric Abstraction, Galerie m+r fricke, Dusseldorf, Germany
Minimalisms, Gallery W52, New York, NY
Painted Objects, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Artists for Chinati,’ Phillips de Pury, New York, NY
Weihnachtsausstellun, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
2005
Spectrum, (Organized by Kate Shepherd), Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Painted Objects, PS, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Organized by Petra Bungert / CCNOA Brussels, Belgium
I Remain the Same: Changed, Curated by Nolan Simon, Center Gallery, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI,
Extreme Abstraction, (John Beech Small Objects, including sculpture selected from the permanent collection by John Beech), Curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Beyond Monochrome, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
MinimalPop, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium
Variations on Yellow, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Drawings, (John Beech, Christopher Lesnewski, Tilman), Selected by John Beech, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2004
Molti Multipli, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Von a bis 2: Editionen, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
20 Years: Multiples, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
In Focus: Themes in Photography, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
John Beech / David Thomas, Foreign Affairs 3, Proximus, Bonn, Germany
MinimalPop, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY, Organized by CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Void, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by David Gibson
Large Format Works on Paper, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
2003
Multiples, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Selections from the Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
24, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX, Organized by John Beech, Eugene Binder
Modelle des Konkreten, Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany, Curated by Manfred Wandel and Gabriele Kuebler
Small Colours, Galerie Eva Mack, Stuttgart, Germany, Curated by Christoph Dahlhausen
New Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Real Red, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2002
Las Vegas Collects, Goodman-Duffy Collection, Las Vegas Art Museum, NV
Drawing Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY
Five, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
XXL1, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
In a Silent Way, Curated by Marion Wild, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland
Two Step, Video / Sound, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
Benefit Exhibition, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, NY
2001
Fifteen Years of Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Surfaces & Support Systems, 123 Watts, New York, NY
El Paisano Hotel, Rudolph Projects, Marfa, TX
Anymore, (Curator: David Borawski), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Art Brussels, CCNOA, Brussels, Belgium
2000
From Idea to Matter, Nine Sculptors, curated by Edward Albee, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA,
Minimalism, Then and Now, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Trajectories, Curated by Marian Griffiths, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, NY,
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-traveled to Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, MN
-traveled to Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Industry, (John Beech, John Monti, Richard Thatcher) Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
From Rags To Riches, curated by Petra Bungert, Foundation de la Tapisserie des Arts, Tournai, Belgium
1999
Of Ten, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Fetes de Saint Martin. Tourinnes-La-Grosse, near Brussels, Belgium, Curated by Javier Fernandez
Into the 21st Century. Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
John Beech & Christopher Lesnewski: Sculpture and Collaborative Drawings, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY, Curated by Marian Griffiths
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green? Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Horizontal Vertigo , Curated by Maia Damianovic, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the Katherine and James Gentry Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1997
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Smith Andersen Editions, The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
-traveled to de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Permanent Collection Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
9+1, Petra Bungert Projects, Brussels, Belgium
All That is Solid, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
Blunt Object, curated by Courtenay Smith, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Seven Year Itch, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Here & Now, curated by Marian Griffiths, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Escape Velocity, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
The Flat Files: Drawings from Pierogi 2000, Vasser College, Poughkeepsie, NY
-traveled to Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY
-traveled to Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Pierogi 2000: The Flat File Drawings, The Gasworks, London, Curated by Joe Amrhein
-traveled to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
Benefit Exhibition, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Aspects of Space, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
1996
John Beech & James Hyde, Curated by Natalie and Irving Forman, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1995
The Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gridluck, Marge Goldwater, Inc. New York, NY
Into a New Museum, Part II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Plastic, curated by Nancy Doll, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1994
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Traction, (John Beech, Paul Dickerson, Richard Nonas), curated by Alison Green and Miles Bellamy, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
The Gluers, Curated by Carrie Lederer, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1992
Edward Albee’s Other Eye, Sculptural Objects from the Edward Albee Collections, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
Objecthood, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, CA
SECA Award Exhibition, (John Beech, Hung Liu, Maria Porges) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Re*Generation, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
1991
Towards a New Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Gallery II: John Beech, Dawn Fryling, Paul Kos, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Selections: San Francisco Bay Area, Curated by Larry Rinder and Enrique Chagoya, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
-traveled to Pro-Arts, Oakland, CA
The Store, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer ’91, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(CON-TEXT), Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
Re: Imperfect Affinities, (Gregory Adair, John Beech, Rene de Guzman) XS Gallery, Carson City, NV
Introductions ’89, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1988
Chain Reaction IV, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986
Graduation Exhibition, The White Room, University of California, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
Pollock, Barbara "John Beech" ARTnews, April
"Forgetting", drawing reproduced, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 42
"Top Pick", John Beech at Peter Blum Chelsea", ArtCat
Van Arsdale, Sarah, "John Beech at Peter Blum," NY Institute of Photography
Gopnik, Blake, "Daily Pic: Reutlingen Factory Yard #1", Blake Gopnik on art
Motley, John "John Beech" Oregon Live, June
2009
Cummings, Mary "Creative Triangle Yields Triumph," Southampton Press, June
"John Beech & John Zurier," Stretcher (online), October
Zarza, Victor, “John Beech: Incident,” Madrid
Pozuelo, Abel H., “John Beech: Incidents,” El Cultural, Madrid
2008
"John Beech & Edward Albee : Obscure / Reveal," Time Out New York, November
"John Beech - Project Space" cover + 6 pages of images, ART LIES, #58 Summer
Bouyiatiotes, Anastasia. "John Beech - Nohow," New Europe, Arts and Culture, March
Dubois, Colette. "John Beech at CCNOA," H Art #33, Belgium, March 6
2007
Boucher, Brian. "John Beech at Peter Blum", Art in America, December
"Pas de Soucis pour NOS," La Tribune, (France Sud) June
"Fate of Modernism," (series of photographs reproduced), Multitudes Magazine Online Paris, June
Time Out New York, The High Line (2 images reproduced from Blum), April
Collins, Tom. “Messy Minimalism: 4 from New York” Albuquerque Journal, February
2006
McQuaid, Cate. “From Ordinary to the Sublime,” The Boston Globe, October
Dawson, Jessica. “Beech at G Fine Art,” The Washington Post, September 30
Benz, Marion. “Ein Hauch von Sommer,” Baz, Basel, Switzerland, July
Baker, Kenneth. “Beech at Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 22
Meister, Helga. “Galerie Fricke Dusseldorf,” Westdeutsche Zeitung, February 7
Dressler, Christiane. “Nicht Vergessen!” Rheinische Post, February 2
Ribas, Joao. “Minimalisms,” Exhibition Catalogue, January
2005
Kuspit, Donald. “John Beech at Peter Blum,” Artforum International, November
Verhagen, Marcus. “John Beech, On Waste and Space,” Modern Painters, October
Hirsch, Faye. “Abstract Generations,” Art in America, October
“John Beech at Peter Blum,” The New Yorker, September 12-18
Nymphius, Friederike. “Minimalpop,” Peinture: Cinq Regards, Editions du Regard,
catalogue essay, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, October
Huntington, Richard. “A Sampling of all Things Abstract - Old and New,” The Buffalo News, August 13
Maine, Stephen. “The Photograph as Canvas,” Art on Paper, September 10
Buhmann, Stephanie. “John Beech Recent Sculpture and Large Scale Drawings,” The Brooklyn Rail, August
Finch, Charlie. “Buffalo Soldier, Extreme Abstraction,” Artnet, August
Huntington, Richard. “To the Extreme,” The Buffalo News Gusto, July 15
Johnson, Ken. “John Beech at Peter Blum,” The New York Times, July 1
“Beech at Blum,” Listing with image reproduced, Modern Painters, July
Boykoff, Joan and Baron, Reuben M. “The Forman Collection,” Artcritical.com, July
Huntington, Richard. “Blues Clues, The Forman Collection,” The Buffalo News Gusto June 10
Gassch, Cynnie. “A Meditative Spirit, The Forman Collection,” Buffalo AV, May 12
Gassch, Cynnie. “Monochromes,” Buffalo AV, May 5
“The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection,” Albright-Knox Now, May 6
Lorent, Claude. “Les Voies Multiples de l’Abstraction,” La Libre Belgique, May 4
King, Sarah. “John Beech at Charlotte Jackson,” Art in America, February
MacAdam, Barbara. “MinimalPop,” ARTnews, February
Dreher, Sabine. “Subtiler Hinterhof-Charme,” Reutlingen General-Anzeiger, January
Zu Mecklemberg, Christina. “@proximus, bonner initiative verbindet kunstwelten,” Junge Kunst # 61, January
Loire, Cedric. “Less is Pop,” L’Art Meme, Paris, January
Gordon, Ann. “Center Galleries: Remaining Changed,” Realdetroitweekly.com, November
2004
Kuebler, Gabriele. “Zwei Kunstler ‘Vor Ort’,” Reutlinger General-Anzeiger, December
Benz, Marion. “Von der Farbe, John Beech und John Meyer in der Galerie Linder,” Baz, Basel, Switzerland, November
“John Beech from the Collection,” Albright-Knox Now, March
“The Forman Collection,” Albright-Knox Now, January
2003
Bakke, Erik. “The history of the world vs. your aesthetic,” NY Arts Magazine, June
Worth, Alexi. “John Beech at Peter Blum,” The New Yorker, April 21-28
2002
Weiderman, Paul. “Necessary Roughness,” Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, October 11
Becker, Helena Kanyar. “Painting on the Move, Basel,” Atelier 16-17, August 28
Benz, Marion. “Ein Rhythmus sucht sein Bild,” Basler Agenda, June 6
Bollen, Christopher. “Surfaces and Support Systems,” Time Out New York, January 3
Pierogi Press, Number 8, image reproduced, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Carel, Sari. “John Beech at Stark Gallery,” Zingmagazine Issue 15, June
Knepp, Gregorio. “From Idea to Matter,” Sculpture Magazine, May
Chinati Foundation newsletter Volume 6, image reproduced
2000
Levin, Kim. “John Beech at Stark Gallery,” The Village Voice, December 26
Everett, Deborah. “Trajectories, Brooklyn,” New York Arts Magazine, November
McLeod, Deborah. “Running on Empty,” Richmond Virginia Style Weekly, October 31
Rand, Harry. Catalogue essay “From Idea to Matter,” October
Bonetti, David. “Charting 35 years of California Art,” San Francisco Examiner, January
1999
Vandendries, Jean. “L’art et les matieres de Fernandez,” Le Soir (Belgium), November 4
McFadden, Sarah. “Tourinnes-La-Grosse” exhibition catalogue, November
Baker, Kenneth. “John Beech at Paule Anglim,” ARTnews, June
Hickson, Patricia. “Into the 21st Century: San Jose Museum of Art,” Catalogue essay, May
Johnson, Ken. “John Beech & Christopher Lesnewski,” New York Times, April 30
Smith, Roberta. “Upper East Side,” New York Times, April 30
Newhall, Edith. “Texas Two-Step,” New York Magazine, April 19
Maclay, Catherine. “Material Issues,” San Jose Mercury News, April 11
Bakke, Erik. “Studio Visit: John Beech,” New York Arts Magazine, April
Everett, Deborah. “Beech & Lesnewski,” New York Arts Magazine, April
Bonetti, David. “Bay City Best,” San Francisco Examiner Magazine, March 14
Scherr, Apollinaire. “Stranded in Marfa,” Oakland East Bay Express, February 19
Baker, Kenneth. “Sculptures With Delayed Punch Lines,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2.5.1999 Chinati Foundation newsletter Volume 4, image reproduced
1998
Estep, Jan. “Blunt Object”, New Art Examiner, December
Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa, Texas, October
Smith, Courtenay. “Blunt Object” Exhibition Catalogue essay, September
Sillen, Kim. “Here & Now,” New York Arts Magazine, June
Freedman, Matt. “Here & Now,” Exhibition Catalogue essay, April
1997
Damianovic, Maia. “Painting Beyond Limits,” Tema Celeste, April
1996
Bensley, Lis. “John Beech & James Hyde,” Santa Fe New Mexican Pasatiempo, June
1995
Smith, Roberta. “Corcoran Biennial,” New York Times, December
Baker, Kenneth. “Details Know Their Importance,” San Francisco Chronicle, December
Bonetti, David. “John Beech at Paule Anglim,” San Francisco Examiner, December
Kelley, Jeff. Text for Corcoran Biennial Catalogue, December
Sultan, Terrie. “Off the Wall and Beyond the Frame,” Catalogue essay “44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery”, November
Taplin, Robert. “John Beech at Miles Bellamy,” Art in America, February
1993
Baker, Kenneth. “Sculpture With Poise and Humor,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 11
Roby, Dianne. “Beech at Anglim,” Artweek, November 4
Baker, Kenneth. “Things Good From Spectator’s View,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 14
Bonetti, David. “Mills College,” San Francisco Examiner, March 12
1992
Watten, Barrett. “Cultural Strategists: 1992 SECA Art Award at SFMOMA,” Artweek, November 5
Bonetti, David. “SFMOMA SECA Exhibit,” October
Baker, Kenneth. “John Beech at Upaya,” ARTnews, September
Baker, Kenneth. “SECA Award Show,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 27
Caldwell, John and Bishop, Janet. Essay and interview, SECA Art Award Catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, September
Zyzzyva Literary Journal, cover + 27 pages of drawings reproduced, summer
Fazzolari, Bruno. “Auto Conceptual,” Artweek, May 21
Baker, Kenneth. “John Beech Builds a Show at Upaya,” San Francisco Chronicle, April 27
1991
Porges, Maria. “San Francisco Fax,” Artissues, November
Bonetti, David. “Door-Opening Readymade,” San Francisco Examiner, September 17
Levi-Strauss, David. “John Beech,” California Magazine, September
Tin Nyo, Paula. “No Pencils, Selections Bay Area Drawing,” Artweek, May
LaPalma, Marina. “(Con-Text),” New Art Examiner, March
1990
Levy, Mark. “Evans,” Art International, Winter
1989
Baker, Kenneth. “Promising Debut of John Beech,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 29
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS & COMMISSIONS
1999
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award
1998
The Chinati Foundation Residency, Marfa, TX
1992
SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1985
Maybelle Toombs Award for Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright- Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Manfred Wandel / Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reutlingen, Germany
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
The Martin Z.Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Sidley and Austin, New York, NY
Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY
Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA
Robertson Stevens & Co., San Francisco, CA
Roche, Switzerland
Swiss Re, New York, NY
KFW Bank, Frankfurt / Berlin, Germany
Shoes or no Shoes?, Ghent, Belgium