In Love First, Live Incidentally – or How Humans Grew into Nature, Pattie Lee Becker exhibits drawings that are inspired by the complexity of nature. She combines elaborately patterned images from plants, animals and humans to create juxtapositions that are often humorous. Her drawings are comprised of highly detailed interchangeable sections, arranged in a manner that is similar to assembling a puzzle. The compositions are supported by elaborate, whimsical, personal narratives, not always immediately evident to the viewer. The smaller drawings are derived from invented botanicals that might be found in such an imaginative world.

Pattie Lee Becker has exhibited at the Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; HERE art, New York, NY; Venice Arts Lofts, Venice, CA; and Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ. She has been awarded residencies from the Ucross Foundation, Sheridan, WY; The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY; and is a recipient of fellowships from the A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY; and the Lower East Side Printshop, Inc., New York, NY. Born in Jackson, Mississippi and raised in Wichita, Kansas, Ms. Becker received her M.F.A. from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She resides in Brooklyn.