Clippings / Quotes
"(Julie Becker) exhibits a terrific sculpture that looks like a makeshift dollhouse crossed with a crime scene model, complete with dingy shag carpeting, bad wallpaper and scattered notes written on tiny sheets of paper. Becker owes something to both Hollywood sensationalism and Bruce Nauman's dark view of the human condition. She's part Hellraiser and part The Shining--and maybe someone to watch out for."
--Jerry Saltz. Review-[Summer Group Show] Time Out New York, Issue #44
"Becker's elaborate installations , which some critics have compared to crime-scene models, do something similar: Following a looping Borgesian logic, they present clues to absent characters and offer, in the artist's words, 'multiple ways for the viewer to enter and exit, to access and assimilate information, create connections, pick up cues.'"
--Ralph Rugoff [LA's Female Art Explosion] BAZAAR, April 1997.
". . . Julie Becker, (who) makes miniature interiors that look like the homes of people who got busted on Cops--barren except for a TV, fake wood paneling, a mattress on the floor, a couple of cheesy pictures, and maybe a dresser. She then makes photographs from these models. The result is seedy and fantastical: part docudrama, part psychodrama."
--Jerry Saltz. Review-[Hot Coffee] Time Out New York, Issue #75
"Julie Becker's colour photographs of constructed rooms are more conceptually opaque; the few here start to mess with your mind, devolving into a looking-glass world of neatly arranged but unnameable dolls' house elements."
--David A. Greene. Review-[Hot Coffee] Frieze, issue #34.
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