BethWatson.com
Title
Beth Watson, artist: painting and sculpture
Contact
- WATSON, ELIZABETH
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- NEW YORK NY
- United States 10003-9516
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- 212-529-8748
Description
Artist's Statement
My artwork is taken from life, preferably in it’s more pleasant forms. The sufferings and anguish of humanity I leave to my more political and socially conscious friends. I prefer absorbing myself in the humorous and comforting aspects of our existence.
For instance, don’t we all think that city buildings should serve the purposes of us, the people? I like to show them doing this: the tenements being a warm center of many different human concerns, the Flat Iron Building with a muddle of people rushing around it’s ankles, the ConEd Building with a stack of other buildings not so elegant and also buses and cars swarming all around. Buildings have their own personalities, too. Some rise in dignity above their neighbors, others huddle close to earth . . .
I like mother-child themes. I think there is humor in seeing two generations so totally removed from each other in outlook and time, yet so closely allied by blood and family and custom. All the familiar push-pulls come into play and I try to show these sometimes difficult situations of a mother with her child in a sympathetic light.
