Lawrence James Beck - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Beck's masks were shown around the U.S. and abroad in exhibitions such as "The Eloquent Object" (1987–89), a traveling show from the Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Heard Museum's 3rd Biennial (1987–88) in Phoenix, Arizona and "No Beads, No Trinkets" (1984) at the Palais des Nations, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Edgar Heap of Birds and in galleries in Reno, Nevada; Kansas City, Missouri; San Antonio, Texas and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His masks are also in collections at the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. His early, abstract work was shown throughout the Northwest in various galleries and museums, including the Portland Art Museum; the Seattle Art Museum; "West Coast Now -- Current Art from the Western Seaboard" (1968), Seattle-Los Angeles; the Henry Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle; and the Polly Friedlander Gallery, Seattle.