The group exhibition “Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces” is on view at Western Exhibitions, January 9-March 21, 2026.
Professor Kim Beck is featured in “Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces,” a newly opened group exhibition at Western Exhibitions in Chicago. On view through March 21, the exhibition brings together 15 artists from across the United States whose work engages with architecture and urban planning. Within the context of Chicago’s West Town neighborhood, the exhibition considers how cities and structures are organized, maintained, and experienced, tracing the relationship between human movement and the systems that quietly support it.
Beck presents works from her Woven Roads series, composed of photographs of pavement, potholes, and road repairs that have been cut into narrow strips and woven together. The resulting surface resists easy reading: fragments of infrastructure dissolve into an almost illegible visual field, where the ground appears to flicker and shift, blurring the line between documentation and abstraction.
Images: Left: “Woven Roads (Interstate North)” 2019 (detail), Handwoven archival pigment print on paper, 52h x 37w in. Right: Woven Roads (Yellow #1), 2019-2023, Handwoven archival pigment print on paper, 19h x 13w in