MESSYBECK 

Rachel “Messy” Beck was born and raised in San Francisco, California. Messy’s current work is inspired by her  fascination with women. The dualities and complexities of females that have been shaped by a history of navigating double standards. Not in the sense that her work is an attempt to articulate or overcome an oppression, but to promote a narrative of empowerment, that this dynamic nature is what makes us incredible and powerful. 

The women she paints are fractured, in various ways. Fractured but not broken. They are reclaiming these various parts of themselves as their power rather than their weakness.

Her work is a celebration. Maneuvering around these social norms (while often frustrating) has inadvertently created a whole gender of mass manipulators. We know how to show up to the table and we know which version of ourselves to bring, to get what we want.