Betsy Eby | This is Where I Begin

Betsy Eby In The Moment It Was All She Knew, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Betsy Eby | This Is Where I Begin

Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm Cover: Betsy Eby, When the Wind Swept the Turgid Eddy, 2022, Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel, 40 x 64 inches

Betsy Eby: This Is Where I Begin May 12th - July 2nd, 2022 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to announce This is Where I Begin, a new series of large-scale encaustic and oil paintings by Betsy Eby. In this series, Eby seeks to harness the beauty of musical harmony and the edgy unpredictability of natural wilderness by creating works that look as though the wind itself has flooded the canvases with color and movement.

Betsy Eby continues to work with bold, saturated colors that dance and play against creamy, ambient fields.

These large, abstract works evoke fluid movement and gestures found in nature. Here, Eby works in a more painterly process than in previous series, incorporating more oil paint into her media alongside inks, pigments, and hot and cold wax. She works with palette knives, brushes, spatulas, baking mats, and her hands to create layers of paint that organically ebb and flow. Embracing texture in a new way, Eby creates surfaces that evoke a kind of decay, but embrace the beauty in the undoing and the unraveling.

Betsy Eby’s practice is slow, thoughtful, and intuitive. Through meditation, Eby strives to live in the moment, yet acknowledges that each moment is not new, but built on the wisdom of past accomplishments, epiphanies, and failures. “The more I let go, the more I feel like every moment is where I begin,” she writes. “Every new painting is where I begin,” and every mark is a pivot point, as she channels the beauty and chaos in the world through a unique filter inspired by her study of music theory, nature, Zen philosophy, Romanticism, mythology, mysticism, and her own lived environment.

Betsy Eby received her BA from the University of Oregon. She and her husband, painter Bo Bartlett, split their time between studios in Columbus, Georgia, and Wheaton Island, Maine. She savors the spaciousness and light of both of these studios, and her paintings evoke the atmosphere of the vast ocean that surrounds her small island residence in Maine. Her work has been shown and collected by the Georgia Museum of Art and the Columbus Museum, and she has shown frequently with Winston Wächter Fine Art in both the Seattle and New York galleries.

Betsy Eby In The Moment It Was All She Knew, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Betsy Eby The Future in a Single Atom, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 60 x 60 inches

Betsy Eby Acadia, 2021 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 44 x 50 inches

Betsy Eby The Clairvoyant, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 48 x 60 inches

Betsy Eby When the Wind Swept the Turgid Eddy, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 40 x 65 inches

Betsy Eby Ida, 2021 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 36 x 30 inches

Betsy Eby Magpie, 2021 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Betsy Eby In The Moment It Was All She Knew, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Betsy Eby Eternity Becomes the Field of Time and Space, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 55 x 140 inches

Betsy Eby Divining, 2021 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 48 x 66 inches

Betsy Eby Shushumna, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 40 x 30 inches

Betsy Eby She Crossed the Divide and Never Looked Back, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 40 x 60 inches

Betsy Eby In The Moment It Was All She Knew, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 50 x 44 inches

Betsy Eby And Then She Realized the Fleeting Nature of Time, 2021 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 40 x 64 inches

Betsy Eby Release the Rabbit, 2022 Oil, hot wax and cold wax on panel 40 x 30 inches

Betsy Eby: This Is Where I Begin May 12th - July 2nd, 2022

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 7+7 Established and Emerging Artists of the Chattahoochee Valley, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA BORN Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 1967 Seaside, OR From the Inside Out, Gross McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA View From Here, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME EDUCATION, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2020 Summer Group Show, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1990 University of Oregon, B.A. Art History Betsy Eby, Chris Hayman, James Henderson, Octavia Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA SOLO EXHIBITIONS Betsy Eby & Alyssa Monks, Weber Fine Art, Greenwich, CT 2022 Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY (upcoming) 2019 Exhibition at the Powerstation, Villanova, PA 2021 You Are the Sky, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA Under the Influence, Somerville Manning Gallery, DE 2020 Mystics, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Atlantic, Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME 2018 Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Garden Riot, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Peers & Influences, The Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA 2018 I AM OCEAN, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2017 Pulse Art Fair, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Miami, FL Bellwether, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA New Year 2017, Cadogan Contemporary, London, England, UK 2017 Frequency, Cadogan Contemporary, London, UK Under the Influence, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE Beyond Measure, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Eloquent Flower XVI, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2015 Songs for the Delta, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA Seattle Art Fair, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Painting With Fire, Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA 2016 Linda Christensen/Betsy Eby, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum,ID Southern Spirituals, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Waterways, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Ketchum, ID and 2014 Painting With Fire, Maine Center for Contemporary Art, New Canaan, CT Rockport, ME 2015 American Summer, Cadogan Gallery, London, England, UK Painting With Fire, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA 180 Degrees, The Curator Gallery, New York, NY 2013 Painting With Fire, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA 2014 Valley Painters, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA Night Music, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY Summer 2014, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI Chromatic Fantasies, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2013 Painterly Gestures, Illges Gallery, Columbus, GA 2012 Ayres and Fantasies, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI Summerstock, Quintenz Gallery, Aspen, CO 2011 Arrangements, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA Tonalism, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA New Paintings, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2012 Petit Tableaux, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2010 Scales and Measures, Winston Wächter Fine Art, State of Nature, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID New York, NY Marks and Conversations IV, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID The Red Paintings, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID 2011 Flora, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2009 Abundance, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2010 Mystical Shores, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE 2008 Divine Unrest, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, NY 2009 Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years, Schnitzer Museum of Art, New Paintings, Jean Effron Fine Art, Washington, DC Eugene, OR 2007 As Above So Below, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2200 Westlake, Seattle, WA Alston and Bird Law Offices, Atlanta, GA American Cancer Society, National Collection Art in Embassies 2004–2006, Banjul, Gambia Art in Embassies 2008–2010, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Art in Embassies 2012-2014, Dubai, UAE Art in Embassies 2016-2018, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea Bellevue Club, Bellevue, WA Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA Boeing Corporate Headquarters, Chicago, IL Canlis, Seattle, WA Cielo Building, New York, NY Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA Hollywood Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, Hollywood, CA Jordan Schnitzer Museum, Eugene, OR Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS Morris Museum, Augusta, GA Nordstrom Inc., National Collection, Seattle, WA Norwest Venture Capitol Partners, Palo Alto, CA Olive 8, Seattle, WA Providence Hospital, Portland, OR Ritz Carlton, Rancho Mirage, CA Saks Fifth Avenue, Phoenix, AZ Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, WA Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Starfish Restaurant, Seattle, WA St. Regis Hotel, Cairo, Egypt Swedish Hospital, Seattle, WA Suncadia Resort, Cle Elum, WA Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA TSYS, Columbus, GA Turnberry Ocean Colony, Sunny Isles, FL Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS Whittier Trust Company, Seattle, WA

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2020 Geisel, Lydia. “An Artist Couple’s Distraction-Free Creative Escape Off the Coast of Maine,” Domino. June 30, 2020.

Kany, Dan. “Paradise Found.” ZEST Maine Magazine. 31 January 2020. Print.

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Winston Wächter Fine Art 530 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001 (212) 255-2718 nygallery@winstonwachter.com Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm