has not always made abstract canvases. “All paintings are self-portraits,” Beckman once said. “That’s all really good painters do . . . that’s the part of painting that you can’t teach.” After a successful career as a fashion designer, Beckman emerged as a post-neo-expressionist artist in New York City alongside artists like Ashley Bickerton and Ross Bleckner.
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