Betsy Eby

BETSY EBY Chromatic Fantasies May 21 - July 3, 2013

Winston W채chter Fine Art 203 Dexter Ave N Seattle WA 98109 [EMAIL] gallery@winstonwachter.com

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Betsy Eby, Chanson de Matin, 2012, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 30” x 48”

Betsy Eby, Nocturne No. 2, 2012, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 43” x 35”

Betsy Eby, Musical Score for a Song Bird, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 42” x 42”

Betsy Eby, Marietta’s Song 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 42” x 42”

Betsy Eby, If There Were a Song for Early Snow, 2011, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 55” x 80”

Betsy Eby, Finlandia, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 48” x 66”

Betsy Eby, Ravel’s Pavane, 2012, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 42” x 70”

Betsy Eby, Nocturne No. 5, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 36” x 58”

Betsy Eby, Spanish Suite, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 55” x 70”

Betsy Eby, Poem of Ecstasy, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 60” x 60”

Betsy Eby, Elgar’s Song of Night, 2012, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 55” x 70”

Betsy Eby, Nocturne Sprezzatura, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 35” x 45”

Betsy Eby, Mallorca, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 36” x 58”

Betsy Eby, If There Were a Song for Late Snow 2011, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 55” x 80”

Betsy Eby, Loon Lake (After Hovhaness) 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 35” x 45”

Betsy Eby, Le Deluge (After Mahler), 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 60” x 60”

Betsy Eby, Song of the Earth, 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 36” x 58”

Betsy Eby Chromatic Fantasies

Winston Wächter Fine Art (Seattle) is pleased to present Chromatic Fantasies, our sixth solo exhibition with painter Betsy Eby. Strains of Satie, Debussy, Bach and Mendelssohn can be seen in Eby’s newest paintings, where muted colors and forms rise and fall across the canvas like notes in a musical line. Drawing inspiration from the Night Music compositions of Béla Bartók, which sought to imitate the sounds of nature, Betsy Eby’s paintings use abstract forms to create a visual landscape for sounds as subtle as the rustling of a butterfly’s wings, or a field of flowers bowing in the wind.

Betsy Eby, Inner Voices (After Sibelius), 2013, Encaustic on canvas over panel, 35” x 45”

For more information, please contact the gallery at 206.652.5855 or gallery@winstonwachter.com

Premiering in this exhibition is a new painting technique by the artist, similar to color field paintings in a dark palette. In this method, Eby brings a piece to maturity then completely covers the composition with dense layers of dark, pigmented wax. These middle ground layers are then painted over with a surface composition, leaving the viewer with a feeling of nightfall. Titled, “Nocturnes,” these ghostly works are inspired by paintings of tonal masters such as Whistler, where the viewer senses objects emerging from darkness.

In contrast to these darker works, Eby has also produced several new paintings in brighter tones of oyster, soft yellows, greys, reds and blues combined with bursts of richer tones to form the distinct palette of her dreamlike paintings. The weightless and ethereal appearance of her work provides a thoughtful juxtaposition to the strenuous production behind them. With titles such as “Finlandia,” “Song of the Earth,” and “Poem of Ecstasy,” each of Eby’s paintings is a world of its own, replete with colors and melodies that dance across the compositions, leaving viewers suspended somewhere between nature and imagination.