Dan Beck

Wanderlust was Dan’s primary motivation in the decade following his high school graduation. Dan took to the road working jobs that included ranch hand in Arizona, construction on the beach of Florida, and four years in the infantry that took him to a two year stay in Germany.

Wherever he went Dan filled his sketch books and journals for his own enjoyment. While in College he realized what was most important to him and that was drawing painting and his sketch books. He quit college sold every thing and decided that commitment to one path was where all the previous had led him.

Dan Beck is an award winning artist and sought after teacher. His paintings have found collectors in both the private and corporate world on international levels including Canada, Japan and the Middle East. Dan is in several permanent collections and has been invited to show in several national invitationals. Beck was also invited to the Settler’s West annual miniature show, sold his only two paintings that were presented, and was invited back the next year. He was accepted for the 2007 “Salon International” and his second year to be accepted into the Oil Painters of America show. He has been featured in Art of the West and Art Talk magazines.

Equally adept at figurative, still-life and landscape, Dan paints in oils and pastels in a style he describes as “somewhere between Impressionism and Realism”. His love of nature and a deep respect for the tradition of art serve as both guide and inspiration to his goal of making a contribution” to the world of painting.

“Painting is a balancing act between opposite ideas- direct observation and instinct, control and spontaneity, even between the literal and the symbolic. It seems to me that although a painter is deeply involved with his won private investigation, his real aim is to communicate something that only the person looking at the painting really understands.”

Dan lives in Colorado with his wife and two daughters.

Education:
University of Colorado, Colorado Springs 
Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design

Studies and Workshops:
Ramon Kelley, Zhang Wenxin, Richard Schmid, Carolyn Anderson, Ron Hicks and Mark Daily

Exhibitions:

2007-2008 Settler’s West Invitational Miniature Show

2007 Oil Painters of America National Exhibition, Award of Excellence Juried Quang Ho

2007 Oil Painters of America Regional Show, Award of Excellence

Juried Jeff Legg

2007 Accepted Salon International Juried Greenhouse Gallery

2007 Great American Figurative Artists Show, Invitational, Waterhouse Gallery

2007 Latitude Magazine, Fall 2007 Featured Article

2007 Raymar Art Panel one of 6 selected in 2007

2007 Oil Painters of American Show

2007 Fall Classic Invitational, 2007

2007 Southwest Art “Collector’s Choice

2006 Artist of America 15^th Annual Juried Exhibition, Missoula, Montana

2006 15^th National Art Exhibition, Juried, Fort Collins, Colorado

1999-2005 Fall Classic Invitational, Hamilton, Montana

1997-2003 Smith Klein Galleries

1998-2001 Anniversary All Gallery Show, Shriver Gallery, Taos, New Mexico

1998 50^th Anniversary Regional Show Art Guild, Best of Show

1998 “The Figure in Art” Guest Artist, Abend Gallery, Denver, Colorado

1997 Two Main Artist show Scottsdale Arizona

1196 Light & Color Annual Exhibit, first place.

1996 One Man show Houston, Texas

1995 One Man Show Denver Colorado

1995 Pastel Society of the west coast, juried Sacramento California

1995 Phippen Museum Artists of the Southwest, Prescott, Arizona

1992-1996 Artists of the West Colorado Springs, Colorado

1994-1995 Annual Exhibition Benefit Women’s Crisis Center, Colorado

1994 Pastel Society of America Annual Show, New York, NY

1994 Cancer League of Denver Annual Benefit Show, Colorado

1993-1194 Nude in Art Scottsdale Arizona

1993-1994 National Miniature Show, Edina, Minnesota

1991-1994 Art Students League Denver, Colorado

1991-1993 “Small Treasures” Saks Gallery Denver, Colorado

1993 “April in Bloom” Saks Gallery Denver, Colorado