American Artist -- Betsy DeFusco

Betsy DeFusco

Contemporary American Painting

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Floating with Grace

Deep End

Cabana

Hidden

Glimpse

Education:

M.F.A., The Ohio State University, 1994
B.S., Art Education, The University of Dayton, Ohio, 1969

Selected Exhibitions:

Pond/Vine, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 2011
CAW Definitions of Character, Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus Ohio, 2009
Exhibition at the Governor’s Residence, Bexley, Ohio, 2009
Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Keny Galleries, 2008
Art and Artifice, Richard M Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio, 2006
Works by Betsy DeFusco and Rod Bouc, Keny Galleries, 2005
More Crossings: New Works by Betsy DeFusco, The Ohio State University Faculty Club, 2004
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2001
Muse Gallery and Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2001

Selected Permanent Collections:

Alliance Capital, New York, New York
Glen Weber and Associates, Washington, DC
Huntington National Bank, Cleveland, Ohio
Microcom Corporation, Columbus, Ohio
Mount Carmel Health Center, Columbus, Ohio
Public Employees Retirement System, Columbus, Ohio
Rhodes Office Tower, Columbus, Ohio
State Teachers Retirement System, Columbus, Ohio

Artist's Statement:

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 and color 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.

"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."

--Jacqueline Hall, Columbus Dispatch, May 2003

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.

--Tim and Jim Keny


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