SANTA MONICA, CA.- Samuel Freeman presents “Tad Beck: Channels”, which opened January 15th, 2011. This is their first exhibition of video and photographic works by Los Angeles and Maine based artist Tad Beck, on view through February 19th. Following on the heels of his solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tad Beck: Palimpsest, this exhibition features four major bodies of work, including previously unseen members of the “Palimpsest” series. The Philadelphia painter Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) used photography to pose and study his models, before incorporating them into paintings. An album of his work was recently uncovered, dubbed the ‘Grafly Album.’ Beck restaged Eakins’ original tableaux using models from his own social circle, then composited them into the original photographic settings. Beck matches Eakins’ models limb for limb, but allows anachronistic elements (wristbands, hairstyles) to reveal hi