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Betsy DeFusco
Contemporary American Painting
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Lake Days 
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Fishing for Love
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Captiva Morning
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Mandarin Cruise
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Spring Fling
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Island Hopping
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Skyward
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Pink Pleasure
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Maiden Voyage
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Under and Over
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In April
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El Corazon
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End of Summer
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Wish for Sun
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Fireside
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Hot Spot
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Floating with Grace
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Imagining Color
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Under the Snow
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In Love Again
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Drifting
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Mexican Morning
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Light Hearted
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Regeneration
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Ruby Lake
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Imagine
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School (La Escuela)
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Dancing
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A Summer Day (for NWE)
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Light Crossings Series #22
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Sea View Motel No. 5
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Light Crossings Series #23
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Ribbon Sky
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Day Sail
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Window to the Sea
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Blue Highway
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Deep End
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Cabana
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Hidden
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Glimpse
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Education:
M.F.A., The Ohio State University, 1994
B.S., Art Education, The University of Dayton, Ohio, 1969
Selected Exhibitions:
2001:
Dayton Visual Arts Center, Ohio
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
Muse Gallery and Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000:
Art Access Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Ceres Gallery, New York, New York
Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Ohio
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Jan Jacinto College South, Houston, Texas
1999:
Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisianna
Ohio Art League, Columbus
Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, New York
Selected Permanent Collections:
Buckeye Printing and Mailing Service, Columbus, Ohio
Rhodes Office Tower, Columbus, Ohio
Mount Carmel Health Center, Columbus, Ohio
Huntington National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Glen Weber and Associates, Washington, DC
Microcom Corporation, Columbus, Ohio
Artist's Statement:
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A painting can be a simple meditation on being. I believe art can render the world visible and that a painting can make seen that which is known but not otherwise visible. I take simple forms, light, color, and three-dimensional elements and bring them together in an attempt to create a phenomenal occurrence, which may, coincidentally, suggest complex issues and metaphors.
I like the idea of drawing the viewer in gently with openness and simplicity and keeping him there to contemplate the small subtleties and complexities he may find. I want my paintings to be restrained and pristine, yet at the same time warm, sensuous and inviting. In a way I'd like the work to resist interpretation. Instead I'd like the reaction to be more of a non-verbal knowing that can't be put into words.
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"She manipulates her colors so that the final product radiates light and tantalizes the eye, often pulling the viewer beyond the painted surface and into some indefinite space." |
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--Jacqueline Hall, Columbus Dispatch, May 2003
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Betsy DeFusco's ethereal, spiritually imbued paintings and works on paper continue to evolve in inviting and challenging new ways. She has begun to introduce more calligraphic references in her abstracted works, which provide more personal notations from the artist's life and, also, further pictorially animate the luminous nuances of color and tone for which she is well recognized.
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--Tim and Jim Keny |
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