Beck has been an artist & painter, in various forms, off & on for over 4 decades but in 2010 the artist decided to dedicate themselves fully to developing intent-filled artwork, getting it in galleries & building a base of serious collectors across the country & around the world. As a result, Lane’s paintings can be found in collections from the US to South America to Israel to Qatar & multiple places in between. And although, for the last 12 years, they’ve focused on producing figure & portrait work of marginalized, historically significant & forgotten people, Lane spent decades doing decorative painting, creating commercial work, illustrations & doing murals for private homes & businesses around their native Cape Cod.

 

Since moving from MA to RI to Sarasota in 2017, Beck has become known as a studio painter doing multiple solo & group shows a year as well as having work in a number of galleries on the east coast. However lately, people & organizations have been tapping into the artists other areas of expertise such as lettering, illustration & mural design. Included in their more recent projects are 8ft x 10ft chalkboard murals for social activist Zander Moricz & his youth lead, social justice organization SEE Alliance as well as 11 sidewalk illustrations for Avenue of Art/Chalk Festival. Lane is the featured artist for Urbanite Theatre, a black box theater in Sarasota, as well as the artist developing a mural about the Florida Highwaymen for the city of Sarasota on the Whole Foods building in the heart of downtown.

 

In spring 2024, Beck became the recipient of the Halo Art Projects Fellowship award, an award given to select artists by a board made up of philanthropists & professional artist peers. They also became the first individual artist to receive the Johnson/Singer Award, a privately run group of cultural enthusiasts. Both groups are dedicated to awarding recipients based not only on their need & abilities but also on their contributions to cultural evolution & social justice work.

 

Lane's artwork can be found in multiple documentaries (by Vanity Fair, National Geographic, to name two) being released in 2025 & 2026.