Betsy Bauer: Publications

Publications

Southwest Art, April 2006

The magazine for today's collectors. Art in the Southwest US.

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"Of Place and Time: Betsy Bauer's layered paintings and collages capture the rhythms of a place" by Dotty Indyke

"Personal relationship with place exists at the heart of Betsy Bauer's artwork, and two places in particular, which are the very opposites of one another in mood and palette. In Italy, she draws inspiration from the spirit and intrigue of ruins that connect contemporary humans with their ancient counterparts, from the sweeping drama of opera, and the rolling, cypress-accented hills that overflow with olives, lemons, and figs. In her New Mexico home, Bauer, 47, observes the bands of lavender, pink, and gold that illuminate the evening sky; she studies the patterns in cracked earth and in datura and yucca; and she wonders at their ability to bloom so luxuriously in the face of drought and constant sun with which New Mexicans must contend." Click to read full text of article

Pasatiempo, June 28 - July 4, 2002

Santa Fe's weekly Arts & Entertainment Magazine from The New Mexican newspaper featured an article on Betsy's 2002 Hahn Ross exhibition.

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"Lush World" by Lynn Cline

"The lush world painted by Betsy Bauer transports viewers to a romantic region in Tuscany, filled with the enchanting rhythms of cypress trees, olive groves, vineyards, country roads, rolling hills and sloping mountains. Bauer, a Santa Fe artist, recently completed 38 paintings that make up her new series, La Bella Toscana. "The thing I love about the landscape in Italy is the rhythm of the vineyard. I spent one month in Tuscany in November of 2000, and a friend drove me around to places so I could stop and draw."

Pasatiempo, June 30 - July 6, 2000

Santa Fe's weekly Arts & Entertainment Magazine from The New Mexican newspaper featured an article on Betsy's art and upcoming exhibition Tuscan Summer Memories.

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"Tuscan Sunlight Shines on Artist's Palette" by Lynn Cline

"If Paris is the City of Light. Tuscany should be called the City of the Sun- at least the way Santa Fe artist Betsy Bauer paints that Italian city. In Bauer's recent works, the rolling hills and expansive skies of Northern Italy are awash in sun-kissed hues of ocher and gold, lemon and butter, orange and rust, enhanced by a rich azure sky. Bauer recently immersed herself in Tuscan sun and returned home with an enhanced color palette for her paintings. "I spent three weeks in Tuscany last summer on a walk through northern Tuscany from village to village, sleeping in little farmhouses," Bauer said, sitting in her spacious sunlit studio in Hondo Hills, surrounded by some of the new paintings inspired by her trip."

Pasatiempo, July 3 - 9, 1998

Santa Fe's Weekly Arts & Entertainment Magazine from The New Mexican newspaper featured a cover of Betsy's art to start the opera season.

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"A Marriage of Color & Music" by Craig Smith

"For Betsy Bauer, sheet music and old texts are near kin to the silent music found in twining plants and bending blossoms. By juxtaposing and contrasting them, she reveals and glories in their similarities. Bauer's latest, The Operatic Nature Series, opens today at Hahn Ross Gallery. The exhibit marks three years since she began making her commanding, plant-and-music images in oils. "I was in New York looking for old paper, old Italian texts, and came across La Boheme. It was a 100 year old book for $1," Bauer recalled, sitting in her sun-drenched studio tucked away in the hills southeast of Santa Fe."

Pasatiempo, June 27 - July 3, 1997

Santa Fe's Weekly Arts & Entertainment Magazine from The New Mexican newspaper featured a cover of Betsy's art to start the opera season.

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Romance & Form by Dottie Indyke

"If it's old, crumbly and Italian, if it's got provocative words, fancy calligraphy or a distinctive typeface, Betsy Bauer wants it. And she'll go to some lengths to get it. When she's in New York City, Bauer scours her secret sources for old books and musical scores. One of her favorite places has a hand-operated elevator and shelves of disintegrating, leather-covered books behind a locked door, each on sale for a tantalizing $5. As for the booty, it will end up in the service of art."