On March 26 Judy Becker Is Our Special Soiree Guest
In the Gateway Fireside Room at 7pm
This months Soiree in the Fireside Room at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 26, will welcome resident Judy Becker to exhibit her paintings and mixed media and engage in conversation with artist and instructor Anna George.
Audience Q&A will follow. This is a free event sponsored by the RAA.
The evening begins with classical music performed by Rosemarie Krovoza on viola and Meriel Ennick on flute while attendees can view many of the artist’s pieces displayed in this one-evening-only, pop-up gallery.
Guests mingle as they view a body of work by Judy Becker. Wine and treats complement the stroll along a long, curved wall erected for the showing of one individual’s fine art. The audience will have the opportunity to engage with the artist following her conversation with Anna George.
Becker worked as a science teacher at elementary and middle schools in Hayward. She found teaching ideal for her as a mother of two children. When she travelled Becker would fire up a new painting on her return. Adoring and respectful of nature, she consistently created landscapes from vistas tha
t spoke to her. Becker started with oils then transitioned to watercolor, and that’s when her work picked up pace, in part through attending California Watercolor Association workshops.
Nowadays her focus is on landscape in acrylics and collage. She sometimes makes her own papers and may color, splash, scratch, and sand for effects, texture being a prevalent characteristic in her work. Her paintings reveal her love for rocks, trees, vineyards, and Carmel-by-the-Sea. They often bear deep or rich tones adeptly mingled. A quiet peace emanates from some, while others evoke somber environmental truths evoking the California fires, the plight of bleaching coral, and the precarious future for civilization and the planet.
Recently inks have also caught Becker’s interest. She pours acrylic inks on an established collage ground, then works the ink. She is working on a global warming depiction, motivated by her awareness of past and current harms against Nature. “My pieces are getting more abstract,” she explains.
