Betsy Arizu
Betsy Arizu
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Betsy's mixed-media artworks combine collage, painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her approach is process-oriented and explorative, using found, painted and printed paper for collage, acrylic paint, house paint, ink, graphite and wax, on canvas, board and paper. Exposure to the work of John Cage, Agnes Martin, Helen Frankenthaler, Jasper Johns, Pat Steir has greatly influenced her path and practice of art making.
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Website: www.betsyarizu.com
Email: betsyarizu@gmail.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betsyarizu/
Biography:
Biography:
1956-
American
Arizu studied art at the University of South Florida, California College of Art, J. F. Kennedy University and Kala Art Institute, Berkeley. She currently lives in Raleigh, NC. Although her mixed media paintings are purely abstract they are influenced by the ever-changing textures, shapes and colors of both natural and urban environments.
Curator's Statement from Textural Modernism: Original Works on Paper and Canvas
"The work of this artist represents all the finest components found in the vocabulary of textural modernism. The devices set forth by the painter repeatedly explore this language. While Arizu adheres to certain compositional constraints, the viewer finds endless layers of content including blended colors and textures distilled to a purely visual level delightful to the artistic experience." ~Marcie Hoffman Porges (2006)
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