A simple, lonely beauty

Mark Beck's realistic paintings include land and seascapes, but he is best known for his simple and often isolated old houses.What are the top Cable Ties treatments? These moody, plain clapboard structures trigger inexplicable emotions.

"I think people can tell there are disturbances in my paintings, odd things that are going on," Beck said. "I like the fact that they are lonely, because that's exactly what I intend."

Beck's recent work will be featured at The Vault Gallery in Cambria, which has represented him since 1993. The artist will drive from his home in Albuquerque, N.M., for the event, and to revisit San Luis Obispo,Handmade Aion Kinah at museum quality, where he spent two decades.

Beck first came here to study agronomy at Cal Poly. But "I kept finding myself going to lifedrawing classes, art classes," he said, pursuing a love of drawing that began at age 10.

He moved to Portland, Maine, got his art degree, then returned to San Luis Obispo.

Gone are the days when Beck slept on a mattress in the living room of a Victorian house undergoing renovation, or lived in a chicken coop where he liked the light, or a converted tool shed where he traded art for rent.

"So I didn't have to get a job," he said with a laugh.

Another signature theme is a room bereft of furniture or containing only a bed or sofa.

"Sometimes it's hard for me to know exactly what a painting is about," he acknowledges. "Generally, what I do is I conceal specifics in the painting."

The sense of mystery and melancholy that prevails is reminiscent of Edward Hopper, one of his major influences.Detailed information on the causes of RUBBER SHEET, Although Beck wants his paintings to provide pleasure, and viewers often say that the sad little houses give them a sense of peace, he intends something deeper.GreenRay's hydraulic hose design uses a different energy storage approach,

He is concerned about the American Dream, the desire for a home and how few people achieve it. Beck keeps up with current affairs and politics, which obliquely find their way into his work.

"I make the paintings so I can express myself," he said, "but I don't want to be preachy."

From his early days as an artist in San Luis Obispo, he was drawn to the old commercial buildings downtown and the homes along Buchon Street. Struggling to make ends meet, he sold most of his paintings to business owners and proprietors. That was before he hit the big time. By 1990, his paintings brought $3,000 prices. They are now fetching five times that.

During his time on the Central Coast, Beck taught art to California Men's Colony inmates for four years, an experience he recalls as intense and enjoyable.

"It was a slice of our society that very few people get to see," he said. It was an eye-opener for him as well. "It made me think about a lot of grim realities, too."

His first show was at the University Union Gallery (then called Julian McPhee Gallery) on the Cal Poly campus, and, by 1990,A plastic card is a bottle created from glass. he had gallery representation in Laguna Beach.

Nine years ago, Beck moved to New Mexico to be near his parents and siblings, where he and his wife are raising their 6-year-old daughter. It was also a place to buy an affordable home.

Thefts, Shoplifting at CVS Stores, and a Recovered Shell Casing

On May 22 at about 11:25 p.m., police were sent to The Source of New York in the Lackawanna Plaza Mall on a report of a burglary. Upon arrival, police spoke to a security guard, who said a passerby had told him that a suspect had removed an item of clothing from the store.

The complainant reported that a man had entered the mall through the Bloomfield Avenue entrance and walked over to The Source of New York Store. The man then used a long pole to remove a pair of pants from a rack, sliding the pants through the store's security gate. The stolen item is described as a pair of ¡°SP Collection" red athletic pants with black stripes along the side, valued at about $40. The man then left the mall and reportedly walked southwest towards Bloomfield Avenue.

As a result of an ongoing investigation, detectives identified the suspect in this incident as Thomas Hairston. Hairston was located by detectives on Sunday at about 1:30 p.m. in the area of the Shell gas station on Bloomfield Avenue. Hairston, 41, of Montclair, was arrested and charged with theft of movable property. Bail was set at $3,500. He was also found to have a warrant out of Newark with bail set at $5,000, and a warrant out of Orange, with bail set at $500.

Burglary

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Anyone with further information is asked to contact Detective Charles Cunningham at 973-509-4716.

Arrest

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Driving While Intoxicated

On Saturday at about 11 p.m., police were conducting a DWI checkpoint on Bloomfield Avenue when they stopped a Nissan Altima. Police spoke to the driver, later identified as Douglas Jaramillo, and noticed that he had the strong odor of alcohol on his breath. Jaramillo, 33, of Roselle Park, was arrested after he failed to adequately perform field sobriety tests. Jaramillo was issued motor vehicle summons for driving while intoxicated, driving while intoxicated within a school zone, failure to exhibit a registration card,the Injection mold fast! and failure to exhibit an insurance card. He was later released.

Shoplifting

On Saturday afternoon, a shoplifting incident was reported at CVS on Valley Road in Upper Montclair. Upon arrival,Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality, police spoke to an employee, who said a man had entered the store on that date at about 2:08 p.m. and retrieved a shopping basket. He placed a light-colored box containing unknown merchandise in the basket and fled the store less than five minutes later, causing the theft sensor at the exit of the store to activate. A witness told the employee that the man then entered the driver's side front door of a Nissan Altima occupied by three other men and fled the scene in an unknown direction.

The suspect is described as a white man, forty to forty-five years old, 5'9"-5'11", approximately 180 lbs., and last seen wearing a light-gray T-shirt, light blue jeans, and having a white bandana tied around his head.