Tobi Beck

Using intuition and spontaneity, I draw out emotion and visual texture in my work with scrapers, palette knives, dirty water, and broken brushes to create moments of an urban mood reminiscent of the alleyways, industrial tones, and ripped stickers on light poles surrounding me as a kid in the projects of South Boston—a grit that proudly defines my non-objective abstract style.

I find comfort in the unique freedom this art type allows, giving room to explore and be with all feelings honestly through self-trust and vulnerability, without forcing resolution or answers.

In this limitless space, I don’t overthink or control. Rather, it’s the one grounded place to drop shoulders and easily be with all my questions, swirling mind, frustrations, and tears. Much like the city, a lot goes on inside with a need for release. Nothing remains unexplored. Everything is exposed, welcomed, encouraged, and used.

I started painting in 2014 to soothe the stresses of chaotic family life and quit my corporate job to pursue art full-time after a cancer scare in 2016.

This raw, honest practice of discovery through uncertainty has become a safe place to explore and feel my way through composition, texture, and self. I am thankful for the space to breat...

FIDM, Los Angeles, Visual Communications
Creative Visionary Program, Nicholas Wilton

Volunteer Positions Held:
2025 Gallery Chair, Santa Clarita Artists Association
2024 Gallery Chair, Santa Clarita Artists Association
2023 Newsletter Editor, Santa Clarita Artists Association

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Sept - "A Retrospective" Canyon Theatre Guild, CA
2023 Jul - "Coming Home" SCAA Gallery, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Aug - "Abstracted" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2025 Jun - "Black & White" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2025 Feb - "Things With Wings" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2025 Jan - "Signature You" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2024 Nov - "Words" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2024 Oct - "Dark, Odd, & Mysterious" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2024 Aug - "Color Crush" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2024 Jun - "Rhythm & Soul" SCAA Gallery | Newhall, CA
2023 Sept - "Season of Discovery" Newhall Library, CA
2023 Mar - "Colors of the Rainbow" SCAA Gallery, CA
2023 Apr - "Textures of Life" SCAA Gallery, CA
2022 Dec - Santa Clarita International Film Festival, CA
2022 Oct - "Inside Out" SCAA Gallery, CA
​2022 Oct - "A Starry Night" | Henry Mayo Hospital Gala, CA
2022 ​Oct - "Art Weekend Sausalito", CA
2022 Aug - "The Great Outdoors" SCAA Gallery, CA

COLLECTIONS
NBC/Universal, Universal Content Productions, LLC
​Private, US, and Denmark

MEDIA, PRESS, PUBLICATIONS
2023 Oct - SD Voyager Magazine "Rising Stars"
2023 Aug - The Signal "Ugly Can Be Beautiful"
2023 July - The Signal "Coming Home"
2023 Jan - Shoutout SoCal...