Betsy Chaffin works in a variety of forms including paintings, collages, monotypes, photographs and sculpure. She lives and works in Spring Island, SC. Of her recent work, Betsy writes, "The paintings are metaphors for my responses to a time, place, or person; for instance, the flowering coral bean in early May, my mother going for chemotherapy, the birth of a grandchild, a memory of Fran, the mood of being on the Colleton River at sunset. Many times I begin a painting and what it is about changes. The work is intuitive, a non linear process. It is a dance between the conscious and unconscious. It is about my inner life; reflections, memories, an expanding and contracting sense of time, fears. I think the paintings are internal glimpses, more like haku poetry than novels. And the process is filled with continual self-doubt. The work is made up of cross-hatches, indirect ways of mark-making. I began using cross-hatch marks when painting oil over tar. I responded to the physicality and texture of marking through the oil and revealing the underlying tar."

Recent Prints from Anderson Ranch Editions

September 10,2007 6:14 PM

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New Editions:

Anderson Ranch Editions is pleased to announce the publication of new work by Brad Miller. "Bubble Shadows" is a suite of twenty images that continues the artist's investigation into natural forms and phenomena. Placing bubbles directly on 8 X 10 film and exposing the film with a strobe creates these images. This work captures the close packing patterns inherent in bubble structures. This simple and direct technique results in a extraordinary set of prints that express a variety of images of unimagined complexity and beauty.

"Bubble Shadows" is presented in a hand made portfolio case along with accompanying text by the noted Italian mathematician and author Dr. Michele Emmer from the University of Rome. Each image is 8 X 10 inches and is printed on 10 X 12.5 inch Arches Infinity paper with archival Ultrachrome inks.

Anderson Ranch and the Patton Print Shop are offering the boxed portfolio of twenty images at $4000. Individual impressions are available for $400.

To reserve your portfolio, please contact Matt Christie, Director of Anderson Ranch's Patton Print Shop and Anderson Ranch Editions.

Thank you.

Matt Christie
970.923.3181 x235
mchristie@andersonranch.org