Goulding Summer House, Enniskerry, Ireland.

Christopher LeBrun

Bax, 2015

Alex Beck’s “What Was I Scared Of?”

Currently on view at Gallery Nucleus in Portland, Oregon is artist Alex Beck’s gorgeous solo exhibition “What Was I Scared Of?”

Conjuring dream like apparitions to canvas, Beck describes his paintings for “What Was I Scared Of?” as “attitudes of a similarly strange concept: seeing fabric or paper as a malleable ‘skin’. These paintings follow that idea and either complete or take a subject’s form.  Fear is familiar and relatable to everyone, but hope is often absent in our lives. However, this collection is an effort to lighten what’s fearful: to play with an otherworldly horror, poke fun and laugh at fear, focus on its overlooked awkwardness, call attention to its absurdity in form and appearance, and thusly find hope.”

“What Was I Scared Of?” is on display until February 23rd, 2017.