About Andrew Beckham
A Fulbright Fellow in Jerusalem at the turn of the millennium, Andrew Beckham found his voice through the lens of cosmology, aspiring to provide a poetic response to ontological concerns. Beckham's work is represented in museum collections nationally, including the MacArthur Foundation, Denver Art Museum, Portland Art Museum, Taylor Art Museum at Colorado College, Fralin Museum of Art at UVA, Joslyn Art Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum's InFocus Foundation, among others.
Mr. Beckham is the Visual Arts Department Chair at St. Mary's Academy in Englewood, Colorado. He holds an MA in Aesthetic Theory from Prescott College and a BFA in printmaking and photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
The Collection
"I view my practice as a mountaineer as a reflection of my practice as a visual artist. Both require creative problem solving while being in a state of flow; both honor mystery and awe as visceral, foundational experiences; and both engender gratitude. It is on the steep edges of the alpine world that the sublime and the catastrophic reside increasingly close to one another at the dawn of the Anthropocene. Beauty and loss fill the same space, often at the same time. Colorado's few remaining glaciers grow smaller with every passing year, even as the Western wildfires become more frequent and destructive. My work tries to navigate this reality, seeking the wonder still present in a damaged world."
- Andrew Beckham
Andrew Beckham's Artwork
A Cloud of Unknowing I (Where Mount Evans Once Was)
