MONO-ROT: DAVID BECKER
DRAWINGS
Mono-Rot: David Becker Drawings, is a slim collection of drawings completed between 1999 and 2015 by Wisconsin artist David Becker. Becker's work is an investigation of bestial human tendencies, in which atrocity appears to be laying in wait. Rich reproductions and details of Becker's late charcoal drawings.
22 pages | black and white | stapled | 2015David H. Becker (b. 1937 Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a painter, printmaker and educator. His etchings were included in the Twenty-fourth National Exhibition of Prints at the Library of Congress in 1975; the Third American Biennial of Graphic Arts at the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cali, Columbia in 1976, winning the gold medal; and Brooklyn Museum National Print Exhibition. His work was included in the Ninth British International Print Biennale in Bradford, England in 1986; the 162nd and 165th Annual at the National Academy of Design in 1987 and 1990. He received a Visual Artists Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts which helped him transition back into painting. He is a member of and exhibited with the Boston Printmakers, Society of American Graphic Artists, and the Philadelphia Print Club. Becker is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.