Pattie Lee Becker
Belonging to that defiantly playful school of the unschooled, the work of Boulder, Colorado based artist Pattie Lee Becker displays a child's unhindered imagination and hand. Repetition turns simple shapes into intricate patterns, and mundane objects into fantastic messes, like a pile of colorful ropes grown to the proportion of a spaghetti mountain. However this Rhode Island School of Design and Columbia trained artist shows no impetuous aversion to skill and craft as she brings her bright fantasies into the tangible realm as sculptures connected through the same fanciful perpsective of awe where the ordinary and out of this world become extraordinary objects in the here and now.
ABOVE: Rope Pile Triptych (detail), pen and colored pencil, 30" x 88", 2010
Rope Pile, handmade ropes, 8" x 48" x 36", 2010
Building Communities Green Ladders, 2008, 14" x 17", pen and colored pencil
Building a Community, 2005, 30" x 18" x 22", MDF, acrylic, paint, glue
The Collector, 2005, 11" x 14", pen on paper
The Collector, 2005, 102" x 120" x 96"', mixed media
Finger Planet, 2003, 6.25" x 6.25", pen and colored pencil
Finger Planet, 2005, 58" x 53" x 18", wood, acrylic paint, ink, varnish
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