Saul Becker

Saul Becker's ethereal scenic paintings are vivid and sublime. Becker works primarily in watercolor, goache and ink on paper and oil on linen, and uses both traditional landscape compositions dictated by a distant horizon line, and an element of flatness present in photography. With fastidious detail and a careful attention to texture and light, Becker composes a near photorealistic atmosphere so placid and still that it appears uncanny. 

In addition to numerous solo exhibitions with Horton Gallery in Chelsea, New York, Becker's work has been featured at Artists Space Gallery in New York, the Horticultural Society of New York, and Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, among others. He is the recipient of many awards including the Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship, the Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship and a NYFA Fellowship. He has worked as an artist in residence at Bemis Center on Contemporary Art, Steep Rock Arts, The Arctic Circle 2010 Expedition, Gros Morne Artist Residency and the Shandaken Residency in the Catskills, NY. He lives and works in Burien, Washington.