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Bettinson: Ravensbrück Series

By Mathias_C | Published September 27, 2025

Mathias Fine Art is honored and delighted to collaborate with HHRC at the time of the center’s 40 anniversary by providing a loan exhibition: Bettinson: Ravensbrück Series. Bettinson’s last series of 17 paintings will be on public view in Maine for the first time after being shown at Pace University in New York in 2024.

The Holocaust and Human Rights Center
The Michael Klahr Center
The University of Maine at Augusta
46 University Drive
Augusta, Maine 04330 (207)621-3530 info@hhrcmaine.org www.hhrcmaine.org

exhibition dates: June 12 – September 19

opening reception & gallery talk: June 12, 5:00 – 6:30 pm Ms Mathias, administrator of the Bettinson Art and Literary Trust, presents information about the genesis of this series and its significance to the Bettinson oeuvre. Bettinson’s death mask, cast in bronze, will be unveiled at this time.

image information: Bettinson (2017) Ravensbrück Series #15: Kommandant (1942 to 45) acrylic on board 15½ x 12” (39,4 x 30,5cm) mounted on wooden panel 24 x 18” (61 x 46 cm) © Bettinson Art & Literary Trust, 2025 all rights reserved Photo credit: Melville McLean, 2025

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BETTINSON’S MAINE

By Mathias_C | Published June 21, 2025

exhibition dates: thru October 31

gallery hours: by appointment

Mathias Fine Art presents BETTINSONS’s MAINE, an exhibition of nineteen images by the late Brenda Bettinson from her Maine 1 Phase. Here Bettinson, in her unique style, explores aspects of Maine’s flora and fauna, its boats, the vernacular architecture, and the machines, which transform the landscape.

image information: BETTINSON RED FOX, 1992 acrylic/wood, 17 x 17¾” (43.18 45.085 cm)

Photo credit: Melville McLean, 1996

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RELIEF – an exploration

By Mathias_C | Published July 6, 2024

exhibition dates: through September 29

gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-5

Mathias Fine Art is pleased to present RELIEF – an exploration. Works by ten artists from New England and New York have been brought together to form an exciting display of different approaches to employing relief elements in sculpture, painting, ceramics and mixed media works on paper.

Shown on the right: Antoinette Prien Schultze “Dressed Torso” 20.5 x 10 x 10”, granite, glass, steel. The artist comments thus on her work: “My Dressed Torso is a sensually feminine expression of a female dressed in her finery. The clothes one wears can change ones outlook.”

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CULVER et al: Group Exhibition 2023

By Mathias | Published July 13, 2023

JULY through OCT 15, 2023

Hours: Wed-Sun 12-5pm & by appointment

Mathias Fine Art is presenting a changing display of paintings, works on paper & mixed media & sculptures by Clinton Adams, Chris Alexander, Martha Holland Bartsch, Max Bartsch, Brenda Bettinson, Michael Culver, Michael Eisemann, Paul Feyling, Patt Franklin, John Lorence, Lesia Sochor.

Michael Culver is the featured artist of the show. Michael Culver has garnered praise for his use of color and the dynamic application of paint. He works on different surfaces in small and large formats. He is also an exhibiting photographer who has received recognition for that part of his oeuvre. Two of his photographs are included in Iconic New Hampshire now on view at Plymouth State University, NH until Sept 30. A number of his photographs are also available at Mathias Fine Art. Culver’s paintings are interspersed here with works, which range from mid 20^th century to the 2020s.

The photo shows Culver‘s dynamic painting Wet Fall in center, surrounded by two Eisemann serigraphs and a 3-D painting by Bettinson & a bronze by Holland Bartsch.

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Gallery Talk

By Mathias | Published August 9, 2022

gallery talk by Cordula Mathias: Aug 12 3:30 – 4:00 pm

Gallerist Cordula Mathias will present a short gallery talk about the current exhibition BLUE & YELLOW: persist.

The talk will cover the reason for the show, the background of included artists and their approach to the theme, and will touch on some of the hallmarks of the represented artists. Shown on the left is Forget-Me-Nots by Kate Marohn a work created earlier this year. The medium is acrylic, ink & oil stick on paper. The work is 16 × 20” and surrounded by a wooden frame.

Questions and comments are welcome. The event is free and open to the public. The space is air-conditioned. Join us.

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Blue and Yellow: persist

By Mathias | Published July 18, 2022

exhibition dates: July 20 – October 2

gallery hours: Wed-Sun 12-5

reception: July 30, 3:00 – 5:00pm

gallery talk by Cordula Mathias:

July 27 10:30 – 11:15am & Aug 12 3:30 – 4:00 pm

musical presentation of the Bandura, the national instrument of the Ukraine by Andrea Goodman:

August 20 4-5 pm

Included artists: Max Bartsch, Brenda Bettinson, Kimberly Callas, Michael Culver, Paul Feyling, Patt Franklin, Brigitte Keller, John Lorence, Kate Marohn, Antoinette Prien Schultze and Lesia Sochor. This topical exhibition includes vibrant collages, paintings, works on paper, mixed media pieces and sculptures.

Lesia Sochor‘s powerful new canvas “Freedom” is the first painting in a planned series of babushkas.

Given the context of the invasion of Ukraine this is a logical follow up to her previous series dealing with thread, cloth and sewing.

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Brenda Bettinson (1929-2021)

By Mathias | Published July 12, 2022

Vita Brevis, Ars Longa

Mathias Fine Art and its artists mourn Brenda Bettinson, an exceptional painter, a dedicated teacher, a designer, a musician, a writer and poet, a traveller who has enriched our lives immensely. Brenda Bettinson has left an amazing oeuvre, which we hope to explore and share with the wider world in due course.

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‘SUBTLE’ an exhibition of drawings by BRENDA BETTINSON

By Mathias | Published September 24, 2019

Twenty impressive drawings by virtuoso artist Brenda Bettinson are now on display at Mathias Fine Art. The range of subject matter takes the viewer from the natural to the mechanical. There are subtly colored forms and monochrome compositions. Botanical images of much greater than usual size are juxtaposed with expressive creative depictions of machinery or machine parts. Gorgeous, innovative and elegant!

Gallery hours: through October 20, 2019 Wed – Sun noon to 5pm and by appointment.

Reception: 10/5/19 2:30-4:30pm

Gallery Talk: On 10/10 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm

gallerist Cordula Mathias will speak about ‘SUBTLE’ the current exhibition at Mathias Fine Art. ‘SUBTLE’ is a selection of drawings by Brenda Bettinson. To say that Brenda is an expert would be an understatement. Her credits include an impressive teaching career, both inside and outside academia. She has a solid exhibition record and has contributed to the arts as juror, commentator and life-long practitioner.

image info: © Brenda Bettinson “Found Object”, 1999, pencil & colored pencil, 19½ x 24″ (49,53 x 60,96 cm); photo credit: Melville McLean

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6/27 Gallery Talk 2- 3pm

By Mathias | Published June 25, 2019

Cordula Mathias will present a gallery talk about TREES an exhibition dwelling on the essence of trees as perceived by an exceptionally talented group of artists: Chris Alexander, Martha Bartsch, Max Bartsch, Brenda Bettinson, Kimberly Callas, Michael Culver, Paul Feyling, Patt Franklin, Brigitte Keller, John Lorence and Lesia Sochor. A Q&A will conclude the free event.

For more information call 207-633-7404.

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TREES June 19 – Sept. 8, 2019

By Mathias | Published June 7, 2019

TREES in their essence and beauty are presented in works by Chris Alexander, Martha Bartsch, Max Bartsch, Brenda Bettinson, Kimberly Callas, Michael Culver, Paul Feyling, Patt Franklin, Brigitte Keller, John Lorence, Lesia Sochor.

Log Pile Lesia Sochor’s convincing canvas is shown here.

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