Nicole Beck

Nicole Beck is a professional working artist who fabricates sculpture in her studio, has worked for many years with young apprentice artists on collaborative public art projects, and has an extensive show record. Beck has installed site-specific public art commissions that are the result of intensive research and collaborative input from stakeholders, including; architects, engineers, fabricators, apprentices, and invested organizations and community representatives. Nicole has won numerous awards and has attended many artist residencies, creating a web of support nationwide. Beck’s work has evolved over the years thanks to a background in the sciences to incorporate the concepts and applications of physics and the natural sciences. Botanical sciences, optics, and astronomy are frequent themes. In 2003, Beck co-created Chicago Sculpture International with a tight group of professional sculptors and thus was born a thriving satellite organization of the International Sculpture Center. Nicole’s work has evolved to include large-scale public art installations that have incorporated a variety of media, deftly moving across mediums to apply whatever best materializes the concept. Portal is a maquette presently being fabricated for a new commission going to downtown Elmhurst, IL. I suppose it’s eerie semblance to a virus shape was an innate eruption! A portal to a new dimension for sure.