Betsey Garand: The seed of my work was planted in New Hampshire where I grew up on a farm surrounded by nature. Frogs' eggs, peas in a pod & plump spiders--circular entities that become life, devour and adorn it--all contributed to my visual vocabulary.
Betsey Garand: In a group of drawings entitled Cavalcade series, I used wax and oil crayon. Oil crayon is one of my preferred mediums; it is full-bodied texturally and absorbs light, creating a rich color surface.
Betsey Garand: Part of my interest in nature is the idea of a continuum. I like the idea of images continuing off the page.
Betsey Garand Teaching (abbreviated list):
Betsey Garand Grants and Fellowships: BIDDINGTON'S CREATIVE PROCESS Archives:
Betsey Garand drawing Jester #16 (right)
Betsey Garand: My group of paintings on wooden panel--a series entitled Source--builds upon some of the visual elements in the Jester series.
Source 3
Oil on Birch Panel, 2001
Betsey Garand: Artifacts of adornment are also of great interest to me. The aspect of embellishing ones' body for symbolic or ornamental purposes is an integral element of most cultures. Some of the works in the Link series derive from Greek jewelry--specifically the Madytos from 330-300 BCE. This period contains many examples whose forms are directly influenced by nature in which floral patterns and seedlike pendants abound.
Link 12 (left)
Black & White Oil Crayon on Paper, 1999
Betsey Garand: In 1990, I received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and used it to purchase this incredible printing press. It is the first of its kind made by David Davis per my request.Fine Art Printmaker Betsey Garand with Her Printing Press
Betsey Garand: A monotype is a "one of a kind" method of printmaking; unlike other printmaking methods, it cannot be editioned. In this way, a monotype is unique, as is a painting or a drawing.
Betsey Garand: As a printmaking technique, monotype has numerous possibilities. My method is the act of drawing or painting on a zinc plate with ink. I utilize rollers, brushes, cloth and pencils to create an image. I run this image through the press transferring the inked image on the plate to the surface of the paper. The print cannot be duplicated, (i.e. editioned), because there is no fixed image on the plate.ED Pentimento XIII (left)
Monotype, 2003
Betsey Garand: The rich, velvety black of printed ink is one of the reasons I make prints. The depth of black is unique to the process and cannot be imitated in any other medium. It is the result of both the ink color and the meshing of the ink within the paper fibers during printing.
Jot #20
Monotype Print 1995
Betsey Garand: In Jot #20", the large ellipse relates to all the smaller ones and makes a dynamic contrast to the square. The black center anchors the composition in space: geometry and nature entwined. A regeneration of form, changing, evolving, being--linking past to present.
Betsey Garand
Betsey Garand Exhibitions (abbreviated list):
2004--Wall Works: Brenda Garand & Betsey Garand, LSU School of Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
14th Biennial Small Print Exhibition, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2003--1926 Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Heistand Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2002--Two Ones: Brenda Garand Betsey Garand, iM n iL Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
LaGuardia College, Long Island City, NY
808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2001--Painters Invite Painters, Foster Gallery, LSU Baton Rouge, LA
16th Annual National Works on Paper, University of Texas at Tyler
2000--50th Berkshire Art Assn. Exhibition, Hannah Gallery, stockbridge, MA
1999--Black and White and Color, AIR Gallery, NYC
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1998 & 1997--The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998--Across the Grain: An American Woodcut Portfolio, traveling exhibition California State University, Long Beach,
University of Texas, Tyler & University of Delaware, Newark
1997 & 1996--Pierogi 2000, Manchester, UK & NYC
1997--A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
City College of New York, NYC
1996--New York University, NYC
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
1996 & 1988--University of New Hampshire, Durham
1995--Art Initiatives, NYC
1994, 1993 & 1992--Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Betsey Garand Collections (abbreviated list):
California State University (at Long Beach) Museum of Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
UCLA Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, CA
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku, Japan
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2002 to Present--Amherst College, Amherst, MA
1998-2001--Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1995-2001--Queens College City University of New York, Flushing, NYC
1999--MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
1998,1996, 1989--Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, Temecula, CA
1990--Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
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