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Betzi Stein
310-202-0474
betzi@betzistein.com
www.betzistein.com
I have lived my life as an artist, expressing myself primarily through the visual arts of painting, drawing, sculpture, jewelry design and photography. I also play the violin and treat all the things I do in life as integral to my being an artist.
I have had a lifelong love affair with the human body and portraiture is a natural outgrowth of this. My understanding of human anatomy has been honed through years of doing massage, yoga and body building. Through meditation, I have cultivated an intuitive sense that has proven vital in capturing the essence of my subjects. In my recent work, I have adopted colored pencil as my preferred medium for depicting the required detail to represent that essence. (I welcome commissions for portraits.)
I seek to capture the quirkiness I observe that humans display especially when in a group. We tend often, both consciously and unconsciously, to mimic one another. Like the caricaturist, but not in a mocking way, I focus the spotlight on this group behavior that is both amusing and touching.
I work abstractly to take a creative and meditative break from the intense detail required of my realistic figurative art. I allow my inner self total control over what I do and observe, setting aside judgment and accepting the outcome. These works often serve to inform my more conscious creative efforts and are every bit as essential to my artistic expression.
I use photography to capture and record in a visual way an emotional response to something in my environment. Some of these images feel best left in a photographic state, while others serve as subject matter for my paintings, and still others are used as reference material in my portraits.
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
2010 (Aug-Sep) VOCA Gallery, Oceanfront Walk, Venice CA (Women Painters West Show)
2010 Works on Paper Exhibition, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA
2010 One Foot Show, Orlando Gallery, Tarzana, CA
2009 Encino Terrace Gallery, Encino, CA
2008 All Media Juried Exhibition, Palos Verdes, CA
2008 Orlando Small Works Exhibition, Tarzana, CA (J.Richeson Award)
2008 Juried Open, Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA
2008 Women Painters West at LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA (best in show)
2007 Feingood Art Gallery, West Hills, CA
2007 Brand 36: Ntnl. Exhibition of Works on Paper Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, CA
2007 California Open, Tag Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Mar Vista Celebrates! 80 Years Mar Vista Arts Temporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Women Working, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, CSU Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA (Pearl Guenther Award)
2007 Woman as Witness, ArtHouse Gallery @TVA, Santa Monica, CA
2006 On the Surface, VIVA Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA
2006 A Woman's Place is..., Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Three Person Show, Kraft Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 All Art Requires Courage, Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Group Show, Kraft Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Art is a Human Need, Fine Artists Factory, Pasadena,CA
2005 6th Annual FMP Member Show, annkullberg.com
2004 Small Offerings, Folk Tree Collection, Pasadena, CA
2004 Line, Pattern, Image, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
Memberships
2008 Colored Pencil Scty. of America, L.A. Chapter *** 2007 Colored Pencil Society of America
2005 Mar Vista Arts Guild *** 2003 Women Painters West
Education
1976 BFA Cum Laude, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
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* None of the artworks may be copied or reproduced without the written permission of the Artist