Bio

Bec Imrich is an artist, writer, and educator born in Cambridge and working in San Francisco. Her interdisciplinary practice is grounded in drawing and photography. She holds an MFA in studio practice and an MA in Visual and Critical Studies, both from California College of the Arts.

Statement

My grandmother used to set provisional booby traps in an attempt to track who entered her space, but would inadvertently set them off herself, further fueling the anxiety and paranoia that caused her to create them in the first place. I’m interested in mining the liminal space where elements of vaguely ominous domestic environments and paranoid interior worlds intersect with the shared pressures of internalized capitalism, alienation, and (environ)mental precarity. Taking the allegory of a futile booby trap as the starting point for my practice, I make sincere yet unavailing protection devices that often collapse, confuse, and conflate the 2d-image space into sculptural fixtures— these flattened sculptures and sculptural images are symptom of this vacillation between internal perseveration and external stimuli, tracing the “ending fatigue” that accompanies muddling through the protracted, drawn-out end of the world.

Contact

beccaimrich@gmail.com

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