Meet Jessica Becker

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jessica Becker. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jessica below.

Jessica, appreciate you making time for us and sharing your wisdom with the community. So many of us go through similar pain points throughout our journeys and so hearing about how others overcame obstacles can be helpful. One of those struggles is keeping creativity alive despite all the stresses, challenges and problems we might be dealing with. How do you keep your creativity alive?
I keep my creativity alive by working on my craft daily and going to events that inspire me, such as art shows, comedy shows and concerts. Supporting those scenes are motivating to see how people express themselves and the effect it has on myself and other people attending the show.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
I’m an Artist that works professionally as a scenic painter and in my free time I make mixed media artwork. My artistic style involves bright fluorescent colors with a wild twist of mixed media and always has a $5 bill pattern in the design somewhere. The subject matter of my artwork is constantly changing from portraits to animals to new beings all together. I’ve recently been involved with the bi-monthly Group Art Shows at The Falcon Bar that local Artist Heidi Kneisl curates. Their themed shows are challenging and improve my creative thinking with each show that I do. The latest show “Corrugated” features artwork on cardboard and showing starts on June 24 until August.
The artwork I have featured is titled, “Quetzalcoatlss”, consists of two birds with snake heads. Working with cardboard has its challenges and I did my best to keep some elements of the artwork showing the features of the cardboard. Such as, keeping the look of a cutout design, adding materials like vinyl/foam paper, fur, and acrylic nails for the snake head features, cutting a feather pattern into the cardboard while lifting some of the wings and adding feathers to give it a detailed look. I kept the raw look of the cardboard for the branch that the birds rested on and added fake flowers with $5 bill pattern leaves.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
The qualities that were most impactful on my artistic journey were to practice daily, test your boundaries and don’t be afraid to make mistakes. The advice I would give to help improve someone’s skills, is to trust the process of finding your signature style. It’s taking those risks and making errors in your artwork that help you know what is a good reflection of you.

Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?
Feeling overwhelmed and trying to be creative is very challenging. I try to set realistic expectations for myself so that I don’t feel defeated when my goals aren’t met.

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Lex Barberio

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