A N D R E A B E C K E R
a r t i s t s t a t e m e n t
Andrea Becker was raised in Austria, and had the privilege to grow up in the midst of a mountainous landscape between the Austrian and Swiss Alps. She arrived in the United States in 2001, studied Fine Arts at SUNY Plattsburgh, and earned a BFA in 2007. She is currently working toward a Master’s degree in Counseling and Community Psychology at the Sage Colleges in Troy/Albany, NY
d e t e r i o r a t i o n s t a t e m e n t
My main drive as an artist is discovering beauty and mystery in the tiniest details and mundane objects that most people would ignore. I enjoy constructing still lives that border on abstraction. I create most of my works by looking at objects in enlarged form. I paint traditional subjects but they are unrecognizable as such in the final stage of the work. Although I work from observation, I am constantly walking the line between the recognizable and abstracted reality. When I create work I may be inspired by dried up leaves on the edge of disintegration or by a crumbling human statue. The content lies somewhere between the lines of color, the way I handle the medium and the imagery I choose to paint. I am often more attracted to objects or places that are fragile, decaying or abandoned. Perhaps a different dimension of truth can be found by examining the relics of natural life and civilization. Discovering meaning in objects that are commonly seen as useless animates me.
