Julia M. Becker
Works on Paper
VISION
What is unseen
flows to what is unseen
passing in part
through what we partly see
We stood up from all fours
far back in the light
to look
as long as there is day
and part of the night.
W.S.Merwin
This page includes drawings, paintings, collages and mixed-media combinations of these processes. Some images are of
quick ink drawings, watercolor or acrylic notes from the sketchbook.
Many of the individual works shown here are from larger bodies of work/installations such as Flowebb , which was
some years in preparation.
The Flowebb installation was composed of many many
smaller pieces, each of which may favorably be viewed as a part of the larger whole.
Some other installations, notably Compositions in Neurotopography and the
Floating and Transient World, were composed almost exclusively of works on paper. Please visit those pages for a closer look!
Or to view a selection of monoprints, etchings, woodcuts and lithographs spanning over 25 years,
visit the Prints page.
A Selection of works from Flowebb
Three Transformative Dieties
43.25"H x 58"W, 2004
Acrylic on Tableau paper. Hand-printed with hand-cut stencils on both
sides of the paper, on multiple papers which are laminated together.
The 'frames' are reinforced with thicker layers of paper.
I will sometimes draw with eyes closed to get at an image that comes from
deep within my physical knowing rather than being purely visual. These
figures were drawn out this way. Then I print and paint into the image,
mapping out the energy and layering the pathways.
Ceremony:
Three Moons. On Our Way to the Sea
35” H x 40”W
Materials: tissue and Joss papers laminated with acrylic medium.
Description: Blue and yellow, orange and gold thick laminated collage.
Abstracted sense of place/ceremony/landscape.
Bluehead with Teardrops
26"H x 19"W
David Bergman loves this piece. That means a lot to me.
Family Pod
Hindu Flower Human
Ink, gouache and watercolor on paper
India Bowl
Ink, gouache and watercolor on paper (collection of Mary Papoulis)
Detail of wall installation (Monkey Totem)
River Woman
Untitled - watercolor
Archway (No Other Way)
38.5"h x 27"w
Altered Being, Black Water/Antlered Rising Earth Woman (At Time of War)
120"h x 39"w
Materials: acrylic paint and medium, and melon seeds, with Joss and Tableau papers.
Altered Being, Black Water,detail
This is the verso side of the paper.
Grafitti Wall Goddess
39.5 x 60", acrylic on Tableau paper with guaze
Earth Dancers
58"h x 39.5"w Materials: acrylic paint on Tableau paper. (collection of Sarah Howe-Cobb)
Felt Pulse
28"h x 41"w
Flowebb
35.5"h x 46.5"w, Materials: Acrylic paint and medium on tableau paper, melon seeds, laminated layers of paper (collection
of Sarah Young)
Description: Pink, orange, quinocridone gold with turquoise and pthalo blue, yellow, green borders piece
(started as making borders but became its own piece. It is musical - rhythmic, simple.
Abstract growing shapes/patterns in horizontal lines. An EEG chart, pulse map, songlines, fluctuations of the heart,
heartbeat.
A few Selections from the Sketchbooks
Phil and Linda's Garden
Ink on paper
Sitting Buddha
The Woman Who Loves Buildings
(1987) ink on paper, 7 x 11"
So Many Stories
(1989), ink on paper, 16 x 20"
Berlin Grocery Bag #1
(1985), collage and drawing, 17 x 14" This collage was a tiny fraction of
the
Five Packages from Europe (1985), a concentration of images and artifacts from a transcendent period
of learning.
A print from the Shiva Viva series
etching, 1999
Spring Fashions
(1990), ink on paper, 32 x 48" This piece represents a transitional period
between living in the Over the Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati
and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in Southwest Montana.
(untitled)
(1984) gouache on paper, 11 x 15"
The Nuclear Buddy
(1984), mixed media on paper, 10' x 4.5'
This major collage endeavor dates from the Reagan years,
the era when the buildup of nuclear weapons became such a gigantic
burden on human society, and among others Dr. Helen Caldicott sounded the alarm
in the film Eight Minutes to Midnight.
This piece incorporates images of many nieces and nephews of the artist.
Eula the Viva
Eula is our superhero.
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