| Dennis Beck, began his career as a graphic artist in Berkeley,
California, in 1974. During the early 1980's, he opened Beck's Art Studio
in San Francisco, a compendium of production artists and illustrators,
and was a designer of props and models for studio photography and television
commercials as well as packaging for consumer products. He closed the studio
in 1991 and relocated to a rural Georgia community, becoming the art director
for Hill Advertising in Albany, GA. Beck has degrees in fine arts and
art education from Georgia Southwestern State University and completed
his doctoral plan of study at Auburn University, AL in 2001. He has a cardboard box full of Addy Awards for print, radio and television advertising somewhere in the attic. The artist's body of work is primarily concerned with the psychological and spiritual effects of addiction: "We have all been victims of some form of addiction at some point in time. Substance abuse, sex, wealth, power, religion, guilt, self, whatever. Whether the addiction is our own or someone else's, it should be seen for what it is." |