Painter Beck Lane has been a working artist for over four decades. The artist’s multi-medium work can be found in collections across the country & around the world from Cape Cod to Sarasota to Washington state, from South America to Israel, from London to Qatar. The artist is often called “prolific” & a “painter’s painter” but has also been described as “the love child of a Russian graffiti artist & Vincent Van Gogh”.

Until 2011, Lane’s work consisted of fairly customary vignettes but the paintings have evolved into a gripping, visual adventure the artist calls “von innen” (or “from within”). It is a wholly unique style developed by applying both flat & glossy oil paint over aerosols over black & white gesso on stretched & unstretched canvas as well as less untraditional surfaces with pencil, chalk & oil pastel sometimes thrown into the mix. The result is an engaging force where the artist & the viewer are holding a conversation not only about the image but how to develop paintings thru the use of decisive brush strokes & an emotional undercurrent of layered color & texture.

In addition to canvas & gallery work the Beck is also:

• The official artist for SEE Alliance, the nationally recognized youth led social justice group based in Sarasota
• The featured artist for Urbanite Theatre, Sarasota’s black box theatre
• The 2025 winner of the SarasotaOUT favorite artist award

• A Halo Arts Project Award fellow, 2023
• The first individual artist to receive a grant from the Johnson Singer Foundation, 2023
• A Hambidge Center for the Arts & Sciences fellow, 2024
• Juror for the Hambidge fellowship, 2025