Bec Imrich

Lecturer

Bec Imrich is an artist, writer, and educator born in Cambridge, MA and living/working in San Francisco. Imrich’s interdisciplinary practice spans photography, sculpture, and drawing. She holds an MFA in Studio Art and MA in Visual and Critical Studies, both from California College of the Arts. She has taught at California College of the Arts, and worked in the education departments of the Phillips Collection and Aperture Foundation where she helped to develop Aperture’s visual literacy curriculum, Aperture On Sight.

Imrich’s practice mines 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 her work, Imrich creates yet unavailing protection devices that often collapse, confuse, and conflate the 2d-image space into sculptural armatures and attachments— 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.

Courses taught:
ART 180: Advanced Photography