Martin Beck
Literary Fiction & Visual Art
Literary fiction and visual art. Where the body remembers, art begins.
Martin Beck is a writer and visual artist whose work explores the way the body holds memory, rupture, endurance, and transformation. Beck received his art training in New York, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh and works in image and language to uncover stories of ancestral, erotic, psychological, and mythic nature.
Art
The figurative drawings and paintings of Martin Beck explore issues of human vulnerability and resilience as well as the ever-changing nature of memory. He has been exhibited throughout the country as well as internationally and has received grants from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. [Explore Artwork →]
Writing
Beck’s short stories and essays also delve into themes of art, illness, desire, power, and the tenuous line between self-creation and self-erasure. His current project, A Theory of Body, takes place in the late-1980s New York art world and follows a young woman as she tries to become an apprentice to a charismatic artist, finding herself caught up in the artist’s ambitions as well as her own erotic dependency and her attempt to assert her own control. [Read More →]
Welcome to the studio. Here the body can remember, images become words and stories can have a very dangerous second life.
