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RUTH BECKER
MIXED MEDIA
Ruth Becker is a multidisciplinary artist whose layered, dimensional works explore the relationship between structure, perception, and process. Working in cut paper, painted plywood, and plexiglass, she
creates sculptural wall pieces that serve as both lens and surface, inviting viewers to engage with shifting fields of color, light, and meaning.
The works in her Layerings series unfold through intricate stacks of cut and painted paper, digitally composed and precisely assembled to reveal their own becoming. Like tree rings or geological strata, each piece captures a record of repetition and change, with individual layers forming part of a larger transformation. Both meticulous and intuitive, these layered forms echo the cinematic technique of deep focus: each plane clearly articulated, yet contributing to a broader perceptual whole.
Becker’s work is grounded in the idea that practice shapes perception. She treats making not only a method, but as a way of knowing, with each piece offering a meditation on material, time, and awareness. As viewers move around her work, new relationships emerge between surface and shadow, figure and field. The result is not a fixed image but an experience that shifts with light and gaze, encouraging reflection and attentiveness.
Her work has received top honors at juried festivals including Best in Show at the 2023 Bethesda Fine Arts Festival. A Fulbright Fellow and graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia Law School, Becker is based in Maryland and supported in part by a 2025 Artists & Scholars Project Grant from the Montgomery County Government and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County.
