DENNIS BEACH
In making work for this for the show over the past couple of years, I have returned to using transparent acrylic as a material to build many of the sculptures. This departure from plywood, which has been my main sculptural material for many years, while being quite challenging (challenges can be good of course), the resulting pieces have a different kind of life to them that I am fully embracing.
Creating and building are the fundamentals that I use over and over to make a painting or sculpture, every piece in this show uses repetition of shapes and these fundamentals to get to the point of completion. That might be the stacking of the same shaped piecevertically ina continuous way to make a sculpture or using a grid of circles to create a painting.
My continuing fascination with what I will call “geometric growth” is taking on even more meaningful exploration with the transparency that is inherent with the acrylic. Having the finished piecesin the studio and now gallery leads to new discoveries constantly, how they appear under different conditions, lighting, background, people moving through. Enjoy.
Plywood, Acrylic, & Aluminum
62 x 62 x 18 inches
2020
Portal
Plywood, Acrylic, & Aluminum
62 x 62 x 18 inches
2020 DETAIL
Pop #2
96 x 96 inches 2024
Acrylic on Plywood
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
50 x 16 x 16 inches
Twist #12
Twist #12
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
50 x 16 x 16 inches UNDER BLACK LIGHT
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
50 x 16 x 16 inches
Twist #8
Twist #8
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
50 x 16 x 16 inches UNDER BLACK LIGHT
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
44 x 10 x 10 inches
Twist #10
Twist #10
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
44 x 10 x 10 inches UNDER BLACK LIGHT
Sustain #2
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
14 x 36 x 3 2023
Sustain #2
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
14 x 36 x 3 2023 UNDER BLACK LIGHT
Plywood, Acrylic & Epoxy
106 x 24 x 24 inches
2022
Twist #9
Column #2
Acrylic & Stainless Steel
44 x 11 x 11 inches
2024
Curve 1 Commission Comcast center
Wood epoxy and acrylic
Curl
1 Wood, epoxy and acrylic
