about

Born in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1961, Jennifer Becker is a painter and graphic artist who lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. After completing her BFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1985, she earned a Certificate of Advanced Study in Painting and Printmaking, also from UCSC, in 1986. Jennifer worked as a learning specialist for twenty-five years while raising a family in Providence. Since 2016, she has devoted herself to painting and drawing full time. 

Becker is inspired by the natural world and is especially interested in places where human infrastructure overlaps or interferes with it. After years of teaching students who think and learn in atypical ways, she is also fascinated by the endlessly strange human brain. A traditionalist at heart, Becker challenges herself to work from life or memory.