Betsy Zill: paintings and drawings

the artist

“Although Betsy Zill now lives in Sóller on the island of Mallorca, Spain, her education and painting career began in the United States. Betsy studied at the Kann Institute with Keith Finch and Saul Bass. She studied, worked, and conducted classes in printmaking, etching and engraving and studied calligraphy in Kamakura, Japan.

Her style is abstract and very personal. She is inspired by the beauty of natural forms and important events in the world. She is sensitive to both the quality of life and current events. Her paintings also reflect the cultural experience of living and studying in Japan.

After her first one-woman show in Long Beach, Califonrnia, in 1961, she exhibited in many galleries in California, Washington, D.C., and in Spain. She has shown at various museums and galleries.

When her trunk with oil paints was lost, she turned to water color and permanent inks and has continued working on paper in that medium since that time. Her style is abstract and calligraphic, strongly influenced by living and studying in Japan. She is presently influenced by the stones and ancient walls of Spain and ever aware of the worldwide attack on ecology; her paintings have this underlying theme:

‘The handwriting is on the wall, but nobody wants to read it.’

Following divorce in 1972, she traveled to Spain in a freighter. She lived in various cities of that country, including Madrid, Seville and Cádiz.

In Spain Betsy Zill has also had various single exhibitions and as well has participated in many group exhibitions.

Ms. Zill’s paintings are represented in collections around the world, including: New York, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Toronto, Palma de Mallorca, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Long Beach California; Columbia, South Carolina; San Diego, and Toronto, Canada.”

Stephanie Arata

Press

the most recent reports:
1998 Balearic Homes- Art: “An Encounter at ‘The Barranc’”
2001 Diario de Mallorca - Cultura: “La Pintura como terpaía y elixir”
2001 Mallorca Zeitung - Journal: “Poesie ohne Worte”

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Exhibitions
1951	Museum of Modern Art, New York City “Young Americans Printmakers”
1951, 1952, 1957	Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
1952	Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1952	Smithsonian Institute Gallery, Washington, D.C. “American Printmakers” - National Print Show
1953	U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
1953	Califronia State Exhibition, Sacramento, California
1954	San Francisco, California “Artists of Southern California”
1958, 1959	Long Beach Museum of Modern Art, California
1960	California State University (Long Beach): invitational
1961	Long Beach Municipal Gallery (Golden Shore Gallery) (single show)
1961, 1963	Jaques Veltman Gallery, Long Beach, California (single show)
1962	Milicent Chatel, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. (single show)
1964, 1966	Gallery Carnot, Seal Beach, California (single show)
1964, 1966	Long Beach Municipal Gallery, Long Beach, California
1967	Extemporanea, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. (single show)
1984	Lafayette Gallery, Long Beach, California (single show)
1987, 1990	La Caixa, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain (1987 single show, 1990 with Marianne Dillmann)
1988	Trobada de Barranc, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain
1989, 1990	XLVIII and XLIX Salón de Otoño, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1989, 1990	La Residencia, Deià, Mallorca/Spain (1989 single show, invitational; 1990 with Marianne Dillmann)
1990, 1991	S’Estació de Sineu, Mallorca/Spain
1990, 1991, 1992, 1998	Galería Max, Deià, Mallorca/Spain (1990 with Marianne Dillmann, 1991 with Ed Sanders)
1991, 1992	Galería d’Art Café Nou, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain
1992, 1997	Sala Mediterranea, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1992	Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, North Carolina (with Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombley)
1992, 1993, 1994	Galería d’Art Marán, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain
1996	Twin Fires Gallery, Soho, New York City
1997	Twin Fires Gallery, Egremont, Massachusetts
2001	Galería Ca’n Puig, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain (with Lori Park)
2002	Es Tall - Asociación Cultural, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain (single show and participation at diferent group shows)
2003	Es Tall, Sóller, Mallorca/Spain “Mar Negro”
2004	Fundació Matthias Kühn, Palma de Mallorca/Spain (single show)

Prizes
1950	Long Beach Museum of Art, California. Primero, Dibujo
1953	California Artists State Exhibition. Primero
1960	Nominada por una beca de la Fundación Ford
1988	Traobada del Barranc de Sóller
1989	XLVIII Salón de Otoño, Palma de Mallorca. Acuarela, segunda medalla

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