Rick Beck: Form

Rick Beck’s cast glass sculpture stirred the age-old debate surrounding the boundaries between craft and fine art. He exaggerates and enlarges everyday objects to monumental proportions and captures these sculptural abstractions in glass. His depiction of common everyday items, such as tools and kitchen utensils, also references the ideas explored by artists working in the artistic movements of Dadaism and Pop Art. His sculpture challenges seriousness versus playfulness, art versus object, functional versus non-functional, ancient versus modern. This exhibition was organized by the North Carolina State University Gallery of Art and Design.