Tomorrow's Sun

Andrew Beck

Starkwhite
94 Newton Road, Auckland

31 January - 7 March 2026
Opening Fri 30 Jan,  5.30 - 7.30 pm 

Andrew Beck, Iris (Focus 12), 2025
Titanium nitrate on glass, silver gelatin prints, framed: 126h x 145.80w cm

'Tomorrow’s Sun’ is Andrew Beck’s inaugural solo show with Starkwhite, offering a luminous and illusionistic start to our 2026 exhibition programme. Join us at Starkwhite Auckland for the opening on Friday 30 January from 5:30pm. The artist will be in attendance.

For ‘Tomorrow’s Sun’, Andrew Beck harnesses the enduring motif of the celestial body with unwavering formal precision. Contemplating the sun’s generative appeal as a cultural archetype, Beck’s latest work considers the sun’s inherent relationship to visual perception and image-making.

Operating from an interest in the deconstruction of photographic processes, Beck strips the medium of technical apparatus or digital intervention. Each work carefully engineers light’s elusive qualities; from its initial capture on photosensitive paper through to a calculated mediation of light waves. Through Beck’s careful study of optical dynamics, the image-objects of his practice evoke a sense of hyper-reality, of hijacking physical laws or principles. Through formal innovations, the artist devises eerily familiar worlds that subvert the usual rules of engagement.