INTERVIEW: Utopia and the unattainable - Together In Art AGNSW

August 22, 2020

A corner of Becc Ország’s studio, 2019. Photo: Anne Ryan

UTOPIA AND THE UNATTAINABLE: an interview with Becc Ország TOGETHER IN ART | ART GALLERY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | by Anne Ryan

Melbourne artist Becc Ország is interested in the ways people create monuments and spaces for the sacred, and our capacity to envision utopias and dystopias. Curator Anne Ryan spoke with Ország recently about the visions of perfection that inform her meticulous practice.

Ország’s drawings will be included in the forthcoming exhibition Real Worlds: Dobell Australian Drawing Biennial 2020 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, opening on 24 October 2020.

Read the full article at https://togetherinart.org

Portrait of Becc Ország by Ilona Nelson.

THIS WILD SONG ARTIST PORTRAIT

July 26, 2019

This Wild Song (TWS) is a long term project by Melbourne artist Ilona Nelson. TWS celebrates significant Australian female artists through portraits, interviews, exhibitions and events. Read the full interview with Becc on the TWS website here > thiswildsong.com.au

Interview: The Arts Show with Alex McCulloch

April 20, 2017

Becc Orszag and Jeremy Blincoe spoke to Alex McCulloch on The Arts Show about their art practices and current exhibition 'The Myth-Makers' on at Gallerysmith until 27th May. To listen to the interview follow the link here >

www.alexmccullochart.com.au

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HOUZZ STUDIO TOUR

September 17, 2016

Houzz.com has featured Becc's studio in Creatives at Home: Becc Orszag in her Converted Garage Studio. Visit the link for more pictures and an interview about Becc's studio space.

'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition. — 'Cannot Contain This' - charcoal on four sheets of cotton paper, 200×152 cm, 2009. Winner of Siemens RMIT Fine Art Travelling Scholarship and Acquisition.

INTERVIEW: In Conversation with Becc Ország

December 12, 2015

by Katie Paine for Nicholas Projects

Melbourne artist Becc Ország creates exquisite drawings that pull their viewer into eerie and fantastical other worlds. Despite an underlying element of the bizarre, Ország’s body of work is steeped in human past and in art history. Histories, both real and imagined, are crucial to Orszag’s practice. In her Immaculate Landscape seriesthere is something of the devotional: perhaps of gilded illuminated manuscripts or fantasies of a Garden of Eden.

Review: 'Inaugural' at Nicholas Projects

December 7, 2015

by Sam Leach
via theSubmachine

The Romans practiced Augury by observing the flight of birds. When the omens were good, the battle was begun, or perhaps the new bath-house was opened. Prediction is a fun game. I spent many years working as a forecaster for a government department so I developed a very modest skill in recognising and interpreting omens. James Little and Ben Aitken have obviously been craning their necks in recent months as they prepared Melbourne’s newest ARI space, Nicholas Projects. Their first show is called Inaugural.

INTERVIEW: Art Smitten on Syn Radio

May 12, 2015

'The Appointed' - graphite, carbon pencil and gold leaf on paper, 2015.

Becc Ország and Peta Clancy talk about their works in Linden Arts' exhibition Paper and putting in the long hours to reach a "finished" product on SYN Radio's Art Smitten. The exhibition runs until 12 July 2015 at Linden New Art lindenarts.org .

Listen here

Artbank Acquisition

November 19, 2012

Becc Orszag's two drawings The Makers and View from the Observation Room have been aquired by Artbank. Check some of the amazing things they are doing for Australian Contemporary Art at artbank.gov.au

'The Makers' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012

'View from the Observation Room' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012 — 'View from the Observation Room' - graphite and carbon pencil on layered watercolour paper, 41x55cm, 2012

FEATURE: Art Collector - Debutants

January 1, 2012

DEBUTANTES: BECC ORSZAG
by Ashley Crawford

Sometimes it just happens. Becc Orszag only finished studying at RMIT last year and it didn’t take long for the commercial galleries to come running. Orszag, wisely, cast around for advice and agreed to join Dianne Tanzer’s stable of artists. (Indeed, she has already appeared in Australian Art Collector, included in a feature on emerging talent in 2011.) She is now preparing for her first commercial gallery solo exhibition.

FEATURE: Art Collector - Undiscovered

May 1, 2011

UNDISCOVERED - AUSTRALIAN ART COLLECTOR ISSUE 56, 2011
BY ASHLEY CRAWFORD

Catastrophe comes in many forms and Becc Ország seems intent to capture it all in unsparing detail. Specialising in drawing - a form that seems to be increasingly acknowledged among collectors - Ország's work ranges from the remarkably meticulous to the errily obscured. It also ranged from the mayhem of nature - the black billowing clouds of a volcano - to hints of Orwellian oppression.