Noah Becker

Noah Becker is a painter who lives and works in New York City and Victoria, B.C. Becker’s paintings represent floating, fictive environments that capture an array of narratives at once. This overall sense of placeless-ness and chaos seen within each suspended world is both a fantasy and a throwback to deep-seated fears and desires.

The allure of inner angst has brought wide visibility to the artist’s work. In 2010 his paintings and drawings were featured in Plank Road at Salomon Contemporary, Six Degrees of Separation at the Claire Oliver Gallery and Go Figure at the Hogar Collection. Becker’s paintings will appear in The Unseen, a group show curated by Adela Leibowitz for the Torrance Museum of Art in California and in Afterlife, a group show curated by Jim D’Amato at the Thomas Werner Gallery.

His most recent body of work features metaphors of sexual desire. Summer Games (2011) portrays three nude women scrambling over a mat game who remain anonymous and detached from one another. However Three Nudes (2011) utilizes the template Greek mythological figures known as The Three Graces, except the artist subverts their innocence into figures less graceful with two wearing sunglasses, as one kisses another. Becker suggests a perimeter for every impulse.