SURFACE TESTS

In Surface Tests, Beck starts by making rubbings of the road—putting a sheet of paper onto a bumpy surface and then rubbing over it with a crayon. She then scans these rubbings and translates them into print using a Risograph machine. Each print develops through a process of layering, registering and mis-registering two colors, fluorescent pink and blue, to create a series of mono-prints. The seemingly abstract markings are as factual and concrete as the literal concrete and asphalt Beck used as the surface. She then recombines these prints into monumental installations.