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Bettinson: Ravensbrück Series
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 5
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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Gallery Talk
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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Brenda Bettinson (1929-2021)
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
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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Bettinson Exhibition
‘LEST WE FORGET’ the new solo exhibition will be on view 8/15 -11/11/18. Bettinson’s 21 new paintings commemorate the centennial of the WW1 battles in Belgium and Northern France. They come as a sequel to her series “The Earth Remembers” and are part of a decade long preoccupation with the impact of total war upon the landscape and its populations.
Brenda Bettinson has exhibited extensively in Europe and the US. She has had one–person showings of her work in prestigious galleries and museums such as, in Maine, the Ogunquit Museum of American Art. Her work hangs in numerous public and private collections.
Image info: ©2018, B.Bettinson, Passchendaele, acrylic on board
https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/new-exhibit-commemorates-armistice/106156
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