Mitch Becker, Early Drawing and Watercolor Painting Figurative Abstraction

Description

Mitchell Mitch Becker, painter, born November 12, 1938, Chicago, Illinois. 1972, Emigrated to Israel.
Education
1961 - School of the … more Mitchell Mitch Becker, painter, born November 12, 1938, Chicago, Illinois. 1972, Emigrated to Israel.
Education
1961 - School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois. Bachelor of Art Education,
1971 - University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Master of Fine Arts,
Teaching
1968-1972 High School, Skokie, USA.
1973-1974 Thelma Yellin Art School, Givatayim
1974-1976 Institute of Visual Art, Beersheba
1977-1981 Art Teachers College, Ramat Hasharon
1981-1982 Bezalel, Jerusalem

Awards And Prizes
1958-61, Anna Tucson Scholarship, USA
Mitchell Becker emerged into the art world of late 1950s Chicago, between gestures of Abstract Expressionism and declarations about the "death of painting." The hot names of his youth, such as Willem De Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Larry Rivers, provided him with interest and challenges for years to come, and his awe for them is still evident in his voice to date, many years after drawing away from them. This work is reminiscent of the work of Saul Steinberg and Philip Guston.
Heroes - Past and Present, Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva
Artists: Shalom Moskowitz, (Shalom of Safed) Yohanan Simon, Boris Schatz, Motti Mizrachi, Hanan Milner, Mitchell Becker, Edith Samuel, Ludwig Schwerin, Igael Tumarkin, Talia Tokatly.



EDUCATION:

1971 Master of Fine Arts,University of Chicago, Illinois
1961 Bachelor of Art Education School of the Art Institute Chicago, Illinois


SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Fresh Paint Art Fair Tel Aviv , Israel
2009 Rothschild Fine Arts Gallery Teal Aviv, Israel
2000 Sara Ehrman Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
1995 Culture Center Kfar Saba, Israel
1992 Tova Ossman Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
1978 Ella Gallery Jerusalem, Israel
1973 Yodfat Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
1972 Chicago Arts Council Chicago, Illinois
1970 Masters Exhibition University of Chicago
1967 Gordon Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel
1966 Massada Gallery Tel Aviv, Israel

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2008 Self Portraits Givatayim Municipal Gallery Israel
2008 10 plus Revisited Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
2008 60 years Israeli Art Ashkelon Museum, Israel
2000 Salon D'Automne Grand Palais, Paris
1997 Eye Level Artists’ House, Jerusalem
1996 Four Realist Painters Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, Haifa Israel
1995 The second Line: Exhibition of Drawings Ramot Eliahu, Israel
1994 Art Focus Mishkenot Shananim Jerusalem, Israel
1992 Painting from Photographs, Painting from Nature Ramot Eliahu, Israel
1989 Realism Rehovot Culture Center, Israel
1975 Immigrant Artists Residence of the President of Israel Jerusalem, Israel
1970 Watercolor U.S.A. Museum, Springfield Mo., U.S.A
1969 Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity Museum of the Art Institute Chicago, IL.
1968 New Horizons McCormick Place, Chicago Il.
1967 Labyrinth Jerusalem Museum, Israel
1966 Autumn Salon Helena Rubenstein Museum Tel Aviv, Israel
1965-1968 10 Plus...exhibited with group Israel
1963 Biennial of Prints and Drawings Museum of the Art Institute Chicago, IL.
Chicago Arts Festival McCormick Place Chicago, IL.
Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity
Museum of the Art Institute Chicago, IL.
1960 64th National Open Exhibition Denver, Colorado U.S.A.
1959 Annual Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity
Museum of the Art Institute Chicago, IL less