Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse

Edited by Henriette Huldisch, Essays by Henriette Huldisch, Piper Marshall, Shelby Shaw, and Selby Nimrod.   Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse" at MIT List Visual Arts Center (Cambridge, MA) from May 24 - July 28, 2019.   Soft cover, 104 pages   "Since the mid-1970s, Ericka Beckman (b. 1951, Hampstead, NY) has forged a signature visual language in film, video, installation, and photography. Often shot against black, spatially ambiguous back drops, her moving image works are structured according to the logic of child’s play, games, folklore, or fairy tales, and populated by archetypical characters and toy-like props in bright, primary colours. Throughout her work, Beckman engages profound questions of gender, role-playing, competition, power and control.   The publication will include selected works spanning thirty years of Beckman’s career, providing the first opportunity to survey her  contribution to the art world. With new scholarly essay