Center for Maine Contemporary Art
Bianca Beck: EYES
May 13 - September 6, 2026
Rockland, ME
Beck’s art can be understood as an expansive journey through the ethical and psychological dimensions of being with others—one informed by but not fully encompassed by their experience of queer parenthood in an un-gendered family. As the face-to-face encounter is a primary site of personal and ethical awareness—a place where we come to understand the dignity of others and the interdependence of our selves on and with the selves of others—Beck’s exhibition is an expression of a profound humanism in an inhumane time. At heart, these works are portraits that pursue the impossible task of rendering an entire lifespan all at once, from conception to childhood to midlife to death. Beck transforms the overlapping faces and visages of previous two-dimensional works into larger-scale three-dimensional works, their quiet benevolence evoking both Neolithic monuments and Cubist sculpture. In a conceptual parallel with the multiple viewpoints of Cubism and mobilizing negative space’s role in structuring sculptural presence, Beck allows multiple moments in time to unfold simultaneously, embracing a model of becoming in which nothing is lost, merely transformed.
“The human form is always in transformation—moving, aging, growing, shrinking, shedding skin, and changing. As the site of all experience, our bodies hold our own histories, as well as that of each other. We are here because of everything that has come before, and we each have the power to impact what is to come.”
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