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Dorothy DaVega Becker (1914-2001) was a ceramic sculpture artist.

Personal
Dorothy grew up mainly in Connecticut and New Jersey with her sisters and parents. Her parents, Harry and Dorothy DaVega, were proprietors of the DaVega Sporting Goods, DaVega Electronics, Red Barn Inn, and White Turkey Inn businesses. Dorothy married William (Bill) Becker.

Education
At 16 years old, Dorothy studied at the Cleveland School of Art, and then at 17 she moved to Vienna to study under the pioneering art teacher Franz Cisek, “who did his best to unteach me everything I had learned in art school,” she said. Dorothy went on to earn a degree in Art Education from New College at Columbia University.

Art Philosophy
''“From where I stand, everywhere I see human beings striving to make meaningful lives in an absurd world. (I do not mean to imply that the universe is absurd. To me the absurdity appears strictly manmade.) So what my sculpture is all about is: What are people all about?''

''Since the human body seems to me to provide the most direct form through which to express the infinite range of human circumstance, I have chosen it as a vehicle of my art - abstracting, simplifying, until I find the lines and planes and movements which are essential to the concept I have in mind. I find my ideas in news photos, in dreams, in archetypal images, among friends and family experiences. The forms you see here ask for direct gut response unmediated by verbal explanations or titles.''

Leave yourself open to feel at an emotional/physical level whatever it is the sculpture says - to you.” ~ Dorothy Becker

Dorothy’s sculptures were primarily shown in galleries, and she been represented by Bill Granizo and Chet Helms.