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Betty Woodman
Betty Woodman
BACKGROUND
American Ceramics Artist Born in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1930 - ) 194850 Alfred University, The School for American Craftsmen, Alfred, New York, NY
She began teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1979, and was made Professor Emeritus in 1998.
Woodman currently lives and works in New York City and Antella, Italy Woodmans work has been exhibited around the world, including a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in June, 2006
QUOTES
ZThings emerge in my studio from a seen image or experience that gets recalled in whatever work I am doing. The work becomes a conduit of the memory of a painting, a landscape, architecture, or some other visual stimulus. Once it starts to manifest itself in my art, the topic and subject then gets further researched in books, visits to museums, or by another trip. "The centrality of the vase in my work certainly implies a global perspective on art history and production. The container is a symbol it holds and pours all fluids, stores food and contains everything from flowers to our final remains."
INFLUENCE(S)
Woodman acknowledges Greek, Aztec and Tang civilizations, alongside Southern Baroque, American Slipware and 17thcentury Japanese oribe motifs, using her forms as a device to simultaneously explore the history of vessels and cultures. Woodman marriages sculpture, painting, and art history Pillow Pitchers, Fragmented walled vases, Light / Shadow
Noah Rabinowitz for The Wall Street Journal Betty Woodman at Salon 94 Freemans gallery, where her exhibition, 'Windows, Carpets and Other Paintings,' opened this week.
"Floral Vase and Shadow," a 1983 work by Betty Woodman, part of her solo retrospective at the Met.