"The elegant simplifications of the human form, picked out with Beck's layered color, is reminiscent of the 19th-centu…"

"Mr. Beck says he once heard a visitor to one of his shows characterize the work as ‘Norman Rockwell gone bad.’ That s…"

"Beck's complex figure compositions bring baroque spatial dynamics into the back yards of America. His individuals are…"

"All the thought which in the course of my studies I have been able to give to the subject has led me to conclude that…"

"I’m in a position where I don’t have to be labeled… I don’t have to call myself an Indian artist to sell my work, and…"

"I liked the way they looked. They were easy to work with my hands. The drawings turned into these magical things."

"I don’t like to feel like I have to stay within a certain style. I like to see things progress and turn into other th…"

"I had this internal need to be a healer. My mom was ill a lot when I was a kid. When she got cancer, I became interes…"

"“I want my children to be happy. I want them to find their own purpose in life rather than fall into a life that’s al…"

"My grandmother, my mother, and me, each one of us progressed into our own work, “I take a great deal of pride in bein…"