Statement

With a surrealist's eye and the skill to match, Alexandra Becker-Black creates a visual world worth reckoning. Her figures are agile and stark, surreal and simple--plausible only within the context of an immense imagination and the desire to reach beyond the borders of classical figure study. Becker-Black captures the figure at its most human--the way a single muscle, movement or stretch reveals that which we are most hopeful for, dream of, or find passion in. Her work invents and explores humanity within and beyond the frame of existence. By combining the freshness of a gestural sketch with deftness of volume, Becker-Black builds a type of poetry from the visual. Rilke wrote: "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further." Becker-Black's work takes her viewer to these places of vulnerability--of danger--then safely escorts them through, meanwhile revealing a connection to faith, a restoration of humanness, and a fascination with the elemental functions of the human body. Simply, metamorphosis.

-A. Hunter Sunrise



971.235.2622
e: abeckerblack@yahoo.com


Rental Sales Gallery

International Juried Exhibition, "Au Natural: Nude in The 20th Century"

Launch Pad Gallery

First Thursday Open Art Walk

Last Thursday Open Art Walk

Josefa Kate Gallery

ISB Gallery, Providence, RI

Benson Hall Gallery, Providence, RI

Woods Gerry Exhibit, Providence, RI

Community Nonprofit Gallery Exhibit


Rhode Island School of Design

Oregon College of Art and Craft

Pacific Northwest College of Art

Renaissance Painting Italy

Drawing 2002