
Ruth Becker
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Ruth Becker creates layered, dimensional artworks exploring how practice shapes perception. Her work blends material precision with conceptual clarity
MessageCollection: Cut-Outs
These works distill complexity into clarity through precise cutting and thoughtful composition. Informed by the traditions of Jewish papercutting and Islamic geometry, with an eye toward contemporary design, each piece is cut by hand or laser from a single sheet—or occasionally a shallow stack—of paper.
Negative space and silhouette carry the structure, creating compositions that are at once intricate and restrained, visually compelling and culturally grounded.