Craig Becker
We are happy to feature the works of artist Craig Becker. Craig is an artist whose practice centers on an enduring exploration of visual and emotional resonance. From his studio in rural Maine, he draws upon an evolving archive of textures, imagery, and found materials to create layered compositions that move beyond direct representation. Craig’s work has been shown in museums and galleries, including the Griffin Museum of Photography, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Maine Jewish Museum. His work has been featured in Musée Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Feature, and Lenscratch. Selections from his Scratch series are held in the permanent collection of the University of New England.
Scratch/Totem
Craig’s projects Scratch and Totem represent a decade-long exploration of personal and collective transformation. Created over a period marked by the declining health of his parents, financial uncertainty, political unrest, and a global pandemic, the project reflects a sustained meditation on vulnerability, impermanence, and resilience.
His work investigates the unseen dimensions of existence, where memory, perception, and emotion intersect. Through photography and mixed media, he constructs visual narratives that give form to the immaterial, tracing the contours of what is felt but not always seen.
In these portraits he is working across photographic processes, assemblage, and layered materials, he engages with themes of the subconscious, loss, and renewal. The resulting images exist in a liminal space between portraits, assemblage and abstraction suggesting rather than defining, each piece becomes a fragment of an emotional landscape, where private memory and collective experience converge.
Steven Duede
Visual Artist, Aspect Principle
I am intrigued by the invisible, the events in our lives which are beyond our comprehension yet are part of the human experience
Scratch/Totem
“I am intrigued by the invisible, the events in our lives which are beyond our comprehension yet are part of the human experience.”
This collection is from a project that spans a decade, and it encompasses the failing health of my parents, financial challenges, political upheaval, and a pandemic. The work is about vulnerability, the subconscious, incremental loss, and the corners of ourselves, individually and collectively, that exist in darkness.
Craig Becker
Craig Becker
Craig Becker
Craig Becker is a lens-based artist whose creative career is marked by the exploration of the visually evocative. From his lakeside studio in rural Maine, he explores the subconscious to create unique figurative work in a spontaneous and intuitive process. The composite images draw upon his library of textures sourced from his collection of antique objects and random encounters.
His award-winning work has been widely exhibited in museums and galleries including Griffin Museum of Photography, New Britain Museum of American Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Maine Jewish Museum. Portfolios of his work have been featured in Musee' Magazine, F-Stop Magazine, Feature Shoot, BETA 19, Lenscratch, among others. Work from his Scratch series is in the permanent collection at the University of New England.
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