Becs Epstein

Becs’ ongoing work is titled Institute of Plant Motivation (IPM). She uses the language of bureaucracy, combined with clean corporate aesthetics and the magnetism of cults, to create propaganda about the environment. This pseudo-organization’s mission is to advocate for the formation of intimate consensual bonds between plants and humans. This mimicry of bureaucracy confronts the way humans have caused devastation to the plant world. Her art mimics the look of large-scale industrial production while making visible the handmade quality. Working trans-disciplinarily in sculpture, performance, video, painting, and installation, she imagines her art as earnest world creation. Becs creates art objects and educational environments to engage communities, while using bureaucratic and self-help language to slither her plant propaganda into everyday life.

Becs is an interdisciplinary artist with roots in California and Philadelphia, currently based in Brooklyn. She earned a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University with a focus in Contextual Practice and Sculptural Installation and will be an MFA candidate at SAIC this Fall. She has exhibited at Carnegie Library, Glitterbox Theater, August Wilson Center, Assemble, Frame Gallery, Wills Creek Exhibition, Folly Tree Arboretum, BabyLands, Miller Gallery, Legend Galleries, Spinning Plate Galleries, Elbow Room Gallery, and NZ Manifestos. She participated at Barim Residency in South Korea and at Stomping Ground in New York. Becs has curated extensively in performance and visual art. She is currently collaborating on an album with Bizzi, an independent musician, as well as offering Zoom performances.