David Becker
David Becker
Study for In a Dark Time, 1970
ink on paper
11h x 18w in
DB0026
With a career spanning decades David Becker's art explores the grotesque and the way we react it. Through his shocking and raw drawings Becker attempts to reveal the often overlooked truths of the human condition and analyze them in a different light.
Provocative, raw and visceral, David Becker's work unearths some of the truths regarding the human psyche usually hidden at plain sight and often ignored. Becker's unique take on portraiture and representation of the figure, depicts people in a disfigured, grotesque and shocking fashion with the purpose to reveal what lies underneath morality and the public eye. Through his theatrically striking pieces, Becker provides insightful, commentary on the world around us while speaking his own unique truth.