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Red Dancer
Basswood, Red Pine, Yew Wood
inches 73 x 31 x 40
(cm. 185 x 79 x 102)
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About the Artist
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, sculptor Gordon Becker life in art began in earnest at the age of eleven in Wellesley, Ontario. Being utterly captivated by a film of an Inuit carver creating an image full of magic and power from a raw lump of stone, he determined then and there to become a carver. A Christmas gift of a small set of high quality carving tools began a passion that has never abated.
Gordon left the Ontario Collage of Art in 1969. He traveled and worked around the world for nearly a decade and during this period of time he had the first exhibition at The National Art Gallery of New Zealand in Wellington.
Upon his return to Canada in 1977, he undertook to complete an apprenticeship with a master woodcarver, which he accomplished in 1981. At that point, Gordon began to seriously apply his knowledge of the world and his skills to the production of sculptural works.
Invitations to exhibit in Commercial and public galleries began to rapidly increase in the late nineties and two thousands. In 2003 he was invited to exhibit his work at the Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea in Florence Italy where he was awarded a Gold Medallion in the Sculpture Category. In 2004 he was invited to exhibit my work at Galerie Wild in Frankfurt, Germany.
Gordon Becker continues to show his work here in Canada and in Europe.
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