Betty Gold
Betty Gold is an American sculptor and painter, born in 1935 in Austin, Texas. She studied art at the University of Texas at Austin. After graduating, she apprenticed with sculptor Octavio Medillan in Dallas. Her work has been collected and widely exhibited at museums and galleries across the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia. Gold has been a Venice, California,-based artist since the 1970s,[1] and has also lived and worked in Mallorca, Spain, and more recently in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[2]
Materials and Process
Betty Gold is primarily known for her large-scale outdoor sculptures, constructed from welded steel and painted in bright colors or left in their raw state to naturally rust.[2]
With the exception of some photographic work, everything Betty Gold has done for the major part of her career has been based on a geometric concept.[3] When asked about her process, Gold explains, “When I found geometry, it’s like when you find your essence. Working in a geometric form takes tremendous organization. This is how I live and that’s how I express myself through my art.”[4]
Gold takes science as the starting point for her geometrical abstractions. Inspired by geometry as a means for measuring the earth, her primary structural compositions place the human body in relation to physical space.[5]
Career
Gold, a former beauty pageant winner, emerged in the 1960s as an unexpected pioneer in the male-dominated field of sculpture, and produced a prolific body of work that spans five decades.[6]
"Her work is often associated with the obscure Madí movement. The acronym MADI is something of a mystery. First articulated in 1946 by Uruguayan artist Carmelo Arden Quin, MADI could stand for four major art principles: movement, abstraction, dimension, and invention. Some say it stands for Materialismo Dialectismo. Still others say the word, like Dada, was invented." [6]
In 2005, Gold was given a major retrospective exhibition at the Casal Solleric Museum in Palma, Spain. “Betty Gold — 35 Years of Sculpture” filled 10 rooms of the historic castle. Other artists presented at the Casal Solleric Museum include Colombian artist Fernando Botero (b. 1932) and Mexican painter Frida Kahlo de Rivera (1907–1954).[1]
Major museums housing her work include:
- The Albuquerque Museum of Art
- Art Museum of South Texas
- Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama
- Civica Galleria d’ Arte Moderna, Gallarate, Italy
- Georgia Museum of Art
- Hawaii State Foundation of the Arts, Hawaii
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina, Madrid, Spain
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- New York University
- The Oakland Museum of California
- The Palm Springs Desert Museum.[1]
Exhibition History
Selected solo exhibitions include:[7]
- "Edge, Color, Movement", 2011, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara, NY
- "Velas de Mar", 2010, Museo Ca' n Prunera, Mallorca, Spain
- "Vancouver Sculpture Biennale", 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- "Holistic Abstraction", 2005, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
- The Czech Museum of Fine Arts, 1998, Prague, Czech Republic
- Austin Art Museum at Laguna Gloria, 1996, Austin, TX
- Walker Hill Art Center, 1987, Seoul, Korea
- Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1981, Palm Springs, CA
- Phoenix Art Museum, 1979, Phoenix, AZ
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "New Betty Gold Sculpture to be Installed on Campus". Mary Baldwin College. Mary Baldwin College News. Retrieved 2013. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Betty Gold Biography". geometricmadimuseum.org. Geometric Madi Museum. Retrieved 2016. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ "Betty Gold Biography". Heather James. heatherjames.com. Retrieved 2016. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Biller, Steven. "Betty Gold:The Mallorca Series". Betty Gold. Gebert Contemporary. Retrieved 2008. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Nys Dam, Shana (2009). "Betty Gold: "Color'form" at Gebert Gallery, Venice" (November 2009). Art LTD. Art LTD. Retrieved 2009. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Biller, Steven. "Betty Gold:Gebert Contemporary, Venice Beach". Gebert Contemporary. Gebert Contemporary. Retrieved 2009. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Gold, Betty (2015). "Betty Gold Curriculum Vitae".
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