annebeck@gmail.com
Cell: 347-204-5088
Home: 707-202-5094
Michelle Wilson
michelle@michellewilsonprojects.com
Cell: 215-589-4333
For the past five years Anne Beck has been dedicated to Lost Coast Culture Machine, a contemporary art outpost in Fort Bragg, CA focusing on socially engaged & sustainable creative practice. With the close of Lost Coast Culture Machine’s physical space in May, she is now in the process of reinventing her self & delving back into a studio practice. Broadly, she is exploring the roles of amateur naturalist and lay surveyor of the current landscape – collecting specimens & recording data, cataloguing that which seems useful, and investigating further that which seems impermeable. This is all in the context of envisioning a sustainable path forward for herself and the planet, which is often a playful exercise in the face of absurd & complex circumstance.
Michelle Wilson’s work explores interconnections between environmental issues, colonialism, natural history, migration, and the loss of diversity. Her work takes the form of papers, prints, artist books, installations and social practice interventions, all with handmade paper as a foundation. Paper is traditionally considered a substrate; in her work the fibers transcend process to become substance and signifier, informing content, evoking history, and embodying site-specificity. She is a past recipient of grants from the Puffin Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Artist-Investigator Project of the Triangle Arts Lab, and the Small Plates Imprint program from the San Francisco Center for the Book.