Margot Becker

Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Through textile processes she explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. Margot Becker has attended residencies at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Haystack, ACRE, Mildred’s Lane, Rabbit Island and Prairie Ronde. She received her BA in studio art from Bard College in 2009 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2020 where she was awarded the Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and the Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Textiles.  

"I make precise, sensuous weavings rooted in sustainable textile traditions and the slow intelligence of handcraft," says Becker of her work. "Drawing on ecology and intimacy, my process employs repetition and natural materials to create textiles that serve as vessels for emotional depth and lived experience. Using an ancient and laborious craft I weave the emotional weather report, creating images of environments that hover between presence and absence. In warp and weft I consider the mirroring of our internal physical and mental structures with botanical forms. By interlocking threads I find interconnectivity across place and time. My latest body of work explores beauty as a radical act. In this AI age when everything around us feels frayed, sped up, and mangled this work is about the need to find tenderness and pleasure as medicine and respite. I use floral imagery not as ornament, but as metaphor. Rendered in dye and thread, flowers become gestures of care, emblems of longing, and symbols of fragile yet enduring connection."