William Betts

Born and raised in New York City, resided in Houston Texas and is currently based in Miami Florida. In 1991, graduating with a Bachelar of Arts, Studio Art-Cum Laude from Arizona State University, William Betts has exhibited throughout North America and Europe. His artwork has been featured in the group exhibition, Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the Arlington Museum of Art, The University of Texas, The Salt Lake City Art Center, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, and the Albuquerque Museum. His selected Bibliography includes The Creators Project (video interview), June 2016; Politiken, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016; Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015; Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Sweden, June, 2014 and Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog). He was named New American Painting Annual Prize winner in 2011 and featured in issues #60, #72, #84, and #96

William Betts had a career in tech industries where he established proficiency in computer language and programing. From this, he uses complex industrial processes to create paintings that reflect the possibilities for an analog medium in a digital age. Betts uses his own source material (photographs/videos) as data sets to be examined, sampled, re-contextualized, manipulated and represented. Typically less interested in content and more concerned with the structural and social aspects of the image.

Series

Color Space Series

Pool Series

Stenciled Series

Line Series

Moire

Video Interviews

Artist Information

Artist Website: williambetts.com

William Betts had a career in tech industries where he established proficiency in computer language and programing. From this, he uses complex industrial processes to create paintings that reflect the possibilities for an analog medium in a digital age. Betts uses his own source material (photographs/videos) as data sets to be examined, sampled, re-contextualized, manipulated and represented. He is typically less interested in content and more concerned with the structural and social aspects of the image.

William Betts was born and raised in New York City, resided in Houston Texas, Miami FL and is currently based in rural Connecticut and Mexico. In 1991, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art-Cum Laude from Arizona State University, William Betts has exhibited throughout North America and Europe and in the 2019 Biennale De La Habana, Cuba. His artwork has been featured in the group exhibition, Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the Arlington Museum of Art, The University of Texas, The Salt Lake City Art Center, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, and the Albuquerque Museum. His selected Bibliography includes The Creators Project (video interview), June 2016; Politician, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016; Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015; Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Sweden, June, 2014 and Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog). He was named New American Painting Annual Prize winner in 2011 and featured in issues #60, #72, #84, and #96.

Residence: Miami, Florida

Education

1991 Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art – Cum Laude

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018 Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2017 4306 Contemporary, Miami, FL
2017 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas
2017 Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2016 Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2015            Geneation, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2012            Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2012            Robert McClain Gallery, Houston TX
2012            Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2011            Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2010            Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2010            Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2010            Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2010            Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2009            Simpatia e Quiase Amor, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2008            Field of Vision, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC
2008            Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2008            Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007            Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2007            Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2007            Indelible, Jennifer Kostuik Gallery Vancouver, BC
2007            Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007            Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque NM
2006            Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
2006            Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005            Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ
2005            Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2005            Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2005            Gallery deSoto, Los Angeles, CA
2005            Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005            Thomas Werner Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Poissant O’Neil Gallery, Houston, TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018 Summer Salon Exhibit, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2018   Peers, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn New York
2017 Summer Salon Exhibit, Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
2017 Painted Landscapes: Contemporary Views, Heritage Museums & Gardens
Sandwich, MA
2015 Brave New World, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Praha, Czech Republic
2013            Margaret Thatcher Projects, Logical Expressions and Variations, New York, NY
2012            Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany
2011            Substainability, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
2010            This is Not a Photo Show, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
2010            Appropriate Manipulate Duplicate, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2009      Landscape Affected, University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, Irving TX
2008            Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, Baltimore Art Place
2008            New American Talent 23, Arthouse Texas, Austin
2008            Group Show, Trinity University, San Antonio, Steven Lam, Curator
2008            Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Claudia Schmukli, Curator
2008            Group Show, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008            Group Show, Spur Projects, Portola Valley, CA
2008            Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Dr. Kevin Salatino, LACMA Juror
2007            Collectors Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007            Chill: Summer Group Show, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York
2007            Vertigo, Plus Gallery, Denver
2007            B & W, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2007            Texas Biennial, Austin, TX
2007            Fab Ab, Salt Lake City Art Center
2006            Watch it! Television’s Influence in Art. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY
2006            Baroque Visions and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star, San Antonio, curated by Terrie Sultan and Chris French
2006            SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire
2006            Texas Paint, Part Two: Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art, curated by Anne Allen
2006            Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, Dr. Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Juror and Curator
2006            OPENDraw, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL
2006             Works on Paper National Competition, Long Beach, New Jersey, Juror: Carter Foster, Drawing Curator Whitney Museum of American Art
2006            5 Angles on Abstraction, Addison Arts, Santa Fe
2006            Ripped from the Pages, Gallery 125, CACHH, Houston, Texas
2006 Blurring the Line, University of Texas San Antonio, Julie Shipp Curator Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror
2005            New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston
2005            Clothesline Exhibition, the Hospital, Covent Garden, London
2005            Three Landscape Painters, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut
2005 Incremental Disruption, NAO Gallery, Boston
2005 20^th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas
2005 Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas
2005 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas,
2005 Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curator DPI:
2004 Competition, Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal Poly, Pomona, California
2004 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston

Awards and Honours

2011            New American Paintings Annual Prize
2010        Individual Artist Grant, Houton Arts Council
2008            Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
2008            First Place, Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Dr. Kevin
2008            Salatino, Curator of Drawings and Prints LACMA, Juror
2007            Finalist, Hunting Art Prize
2006            Best in Show, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, 2006
2006 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror
2005             Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County
2005 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Juror and Curator

Bibliography

2016 The Creators Project, June 2016
2016 Politiken, Københagen, Photo Essay, March 28, 2016
2015 Kinetic, Art from Polsinelli Art Collection, Privately Published 2015
2014 Victoria Machmudov, Under övervakningsradarn, Konstperspektiv, Limhamm, Sweden
2014 Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgar (Show Catalog)
2014 Just Not Yet: Dodging the Vaccum of Meaning, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University (Show Catalog)
2013 Painted Landscapes, Lauren P. Della Monica, Schiffer Books. 2013
2011 Iris Mclister, WIlliam Betts Review: Terminal at Richard Levy Gallery, THE Magazine, 2011
2010 Douglas Britt, Confronting Beauty—And the Ugly Truth—In a Mirror, Houston Chronicle, November 7, 2010
2010 Laura Lark, Mirror Stages: William Betts and the Reflective Surface, October 2010
2010            Charissa Terranova, William Betts: Surveillance, ARTlies
2009            Manon Slome, The Aesthetics of Terror, Charta
2008            Sharon Brock, Looming threats spark art, Palo Alto Daily News, February 28, 2008
2008            Alan Artner, Chilling surveillance-camera images tap into fears, Chicago Tribune, January 18
2008            New American Paintings – Western Region Edition No. 72, Nick Capasso, juror
2007            Kelly Klaasmeyer, Retinal Redux, Houston Press, April 19, 2007
2007            Elaine Wolff, Reading Between the Pixels, San Antonio Current, March 13, 2007
2007            Visual Art Feature, Lungfull Magazine, Issue 16
2007            Nikki Moore, Bi-ology, Austin Chronicle, March 1
2007            Brian Staker, Abs, Tracked, Salt Lake City Weekly, April 18, 2007
2007            Texas Biennial 2007, Austin, Texas, Show Catalog
2007            Theresa Downing, SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
2006            Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump, ARTINFO.com, December 9
2006            Dan R. Goddard, Houston, in the eyes of the artists, San Antonio Express-News, December 3
2006            Nancy Salem, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006
Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Show Catalog
2006            Bill Davenport: Ripped from the Pages at CACHH, Glasstire.com, May 15, 2006
2006            Bill Davenport: William Betts Makes Art and a Profit, Houston Chronicle, Sunday Zest Magazine, May 7
2006            Alan Artner, Review: William Betts at Peter Miller, Chicago Tribune, March 10, 2006
2006            Lauren Weinberg, William Betts at Peter Miller, Time Out Chicago, March 3, 2006
2006            Fred Camper, Slices of Light, Chicago Reader, March 3, 2006
2005            Kelly Klaasmeyer, Grab Bag: Diverseworks surveys Texas Painting, Houston Press, December
2005            Charissa N. Terranova, William Betts at Holly Johnson, ARTLIES 48, Fall 2005
2005            New American Painting, Volume 60, Open Studios Press, 2005, Fereshteh
2005            Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Juror
2005            Michael Paglia, Formal Ware, Westword Weekly, May 13, 2005
2005            D’Lynne Plummer, Destination Nao, South End News, April 2005
2005            Cate McQuaid, Incremental Disruption, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2005
2005            Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Brushed With Greatness, Austin American-Statesman, March 8, 2005
2005            Elaine Wolff, Digital-induced Angst and Sensory Overload, San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005
2005            J R Compton, The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension, Dallas Arts Revue, March
2005            Tyler Green, ArtLA Faves, Artsjournal.com, February 2, 2005
2004            Kelly Klaasmeyer, Capsule Reviews, Houston Press, October 21, 2004
2004            Tim Moloney, The Line on William Betts, 002 Magazine, November 2004

Art Fairs

CONTEXT Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Florida December 2013
CONTEXT Miami Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Florida December 2012
San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Fransico, CA USA May 2011
TIAF Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, ON CANADA October 2010
PULSE NY Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY USA March 2008
LAAS Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, CA USA January 2008
ART MIAMI, Miami, FL USA December 2007
PULSE MIAMI, Miami, FL USA December 2007
PULSE NY Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY USA March 2007

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Georg Kuettinger

by Georg Kuettinger

Georg Kuettinger

Interferences 2022

Within the new series, I continue my deliberation on the topic of perception and the realm of opportunities that can be created. The term “Interferences” describes my new works of which consist of a photographic composition and multiple panels comprised of casting resin featuring manually embossed imprints that are mounted in front of it.

Superimposition, permeation and oscillation of different layers lead to visual interferences and prismatic effects. The space that is located between the observer and the actual image serves as a medium that itself becomes part of the image and is modeled and sculpted. Through interferences, my new works manifest the notion of sight as a form of exploring the relation between what can and cannot be seen.

Landscape: Remixed 2014

German based photography artist, Kuettinger’s debut photographic series Landscape: Remixed is an examination of perception, horizons and a density of space and time, assembled to present stories of landscapes. Single photographic images are stretched, shifted and compressed into one picture frame to create the simultaneous image of a scene.