BETSY SILVERMAN
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BIO
Working in a collage style that she calls “fragmented realism,” Betsy Silverman trains her eye upon discarded magazines – which she selects, cuts, and glues to a canvas, in order to transform the old images and text into unique, multidimensional portraits, still lifes, cityscapes, and representations of New England – especially the Boston area.
A graduate of Cornell University and the Rhode Island School of Design, Betsy holds a Master of Architecture degree and her work is infused with architectural sensibility – employing perspective, light and shadow, reflections, or the scale of various elements, so as to create a sense of depth and perspective.
“I delight in the challenge of fashioning a new image, while preserving bits of the former representations found in the selected pieces of paper – their individual memories and histories. I choose each recycled paper remnant for its hue, value, saturation, image content (you will find Red Sox players and other regional or subject-matter references throughout my artwork), and textual relationship to the subjects of my work. Thus, each artwork comprises many layers of meaning – both literally and figuratively.”