The alternatively vibrant and moody work of Pattie Lee Becker unfolds as a vague subconscious world of unexpected proportions. Through drawing, printmaking, sewing, ceramics and woodworking, familiar and foreign forms arise in hauntingly playful relationships. Becker’s symbol-infused narrative produces ambassadors from dreamlike memories and psychological landscapes, stepping forward between the unbound possibilities of abstraction and the limits of representation.

Raised in the great Midwest, Pattie Lee Becker spent her childhood surrounded by prairie and open sky. After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design, she moved her studio to Brooklyn, NY, where she spent a decade before relocating to the Rocky Mountains. She holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships. She currently teaches art at Naropa University and the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design.