Lift Off | site specific installation, Tyvek paper, 8 panels, 36" x 96" each
NINE | site specific installation, paper, aluminum, 9 elements, 72" x 24" x 15" each, 10' x 10' installation dimension
On the Mend | vinyl fencing, wood, 96" x 60" x 8"
Mind Map and Mothership | vinyl fencing, 15' x 18' x 30', installation dimension variable
Hubris | aluminum, steel installation, 72" x 60" x 21"
Fear and Hope | site specific installation, Tyvek paper, 35 panels, 144" x 96" each
Momento and Steps | site specific installation, 8 Tyvek paper panels at 84" x 36" each, 8 graphite & mixed media panels at 24" x 18" each
Coffee Talk | site specific installation, 12-20 burlap sacks, 24" x 36" each
Ray | site specific installation, aluminum screening, Rustoleum paint, 10 elements at 36" x 48" x 21" each
Determined series | concrete, stone on wood panel, 72" x 72" x 4"
Articulated Movement Series 1,2,3 | mixed media on black canvas, 48" x 24" x 2" each
Undistinguished Beauty series | burlap sacks, acrylic, 6 elements, 36" x 24" each
Caress | mixed media on aluminum, copper, 36" x 24" x 21"
Mettle | steel wool, 21" x 24" x 5"
Sleeping Whale | Tyvek paper, acrylic paint, 84" x 42" x 36"
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Member Portfolio

Francis Beaty

Mill Studios Studio #1 123 Leverington St Philadelphia PA 19127

Résumé

Artist Statement

I am Francis Beaty (1949, Abington, PA United States) an artist who works in a variety of media. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned. By taking daily life as subject matter I comment on the everyday aesthetic. I try to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way. I like to involve the viewer in a way that is sometimes physical and believe in the idea of function following form in a work. I create work with a clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art. My works are characterized by the use of everyday objects in which recognition plays an important part. By emphasizing aesthetics, I amplify the astonishment of the spectator by creating environments that generate tranquil poetic images leaving traces on the edge of recognition and alienation. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. With a subtle minimalistic approach, I formalize the coincidental and emphasize the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random work.

Artist Biography

Francis Beaty is a contemporary installation artist, painter and sculptor known for her interdisciplinary work and introspective style. Her works incorporate found and constructed elements with a unique conceptual inventiveness. Her first large installation “The Hatching” was a community engagement piece, Allentown PA 2017. Her membership in the Global Art Project 2018-2021 expanded her exhibition opportunities into Europe. She participated in the Geuzenmaand 2021-2022 Exhibition through the 10dence gallery who represents her in Europe. The exhibition traveled to the Museum Vlaardingen, World Art Delft, Rotterdam Courthouse and Kunstwerkt Foundation Scheidam. She was awarded the Betsy Meyer Award in Philadelphia in 2021 and is a member of InLiquid and CFEVA. Her residencies include Saruya, Japan; Buffalo Creek, Nevada; Chateau Campadieu, France; Baum School of Art, PA. Francis has utilized her degrees in Education, French and Architectural Interior Design to express herself. Given the current socio-political climate she believes it is important to create work that bridges the gaps across different perspectives and facilitate relational dialogue.

Education

1985 - 1989
Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
Watercolor, Drawing, Sculpture, Pottery, Mixed Media
Instructors: Renzo Faggioli, Rosemary Geseck, Dana Van Horn, Thomas Unger
1988
Judith Kissinger, private class, Bethlehem, PA
Advanced Watercolor
1986 - 1987
Lee Everett, private class, Allentown, PA
Beginner and Advanced Watercolor
1985
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
AAS Interior Design
1971
Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA
BA, Elementary Education & French

Awards & Honors

2021
Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art & 18th Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition.Philadelphia PA
2017
Honorable Mention for Lift Off Installation, Ashland University Coburn Gallery, Ashland OH
Honorable mention for Arbor Pulse, Baum Art School Group Show, Allentown PA

Residencies

2022
Artist in Residence, Saruya AIR, Fujiyoshida, Japan
Artist in Residence, Buffalo Creek Art Center, Gardnerville, Nevada
2017
Hatching Installation Community Project Thomas Mann Trajectory Heart Residency Project, Guest artist ,Allentown PA
2018
Artist in Residence, Baum School of Art. Sculpture teacher, Roberto Clemente Charter School, Allentown PA
2019 Member Global Arts Project, Group Exhibition “Crossing Borders”, Ghent, Belgium
Artist in Residence, Allentown School District Foundation "What is Sculpture?", Allentown PA
Artist in Residence, Christine Chateau Campadieu, Ille-sur-Tet, France
2018
Artist in Residence, Baum School of Art, Roberto Clemente Charter School, Allentown PA

Bibliography

2022
Blink, Your Art Resource, ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
Onafhankeelijk, Kunstexpositie Geuzenmaand
2021
Artifacts , 10dence platform, "Francis Beaty - USA", Get Out Of Your Skull
2020
Interview with featured artist Francis Beaty,
Inspirational Magazine #34
2019
Global Art Project. Crossing Borders. Edited by C. Heyward and R. Weijers. 2019. Exhibition Catalogue.
2017
Foxx, Maxx. “Francis Beaty One Artist One Woman Interview”. Musings, WDIY 88.1. September 2017
Foxx, Maxx. “Francis Beaty Portal Interview”. Musings, WDIY 88.1. January 2017
Higgins, Tim. “A Mesmerizing Sculpture ‘Hatched’ From Books”. Sunday Arts, Morning Call. December 17, 2017
Silliman, Marian: “Dichotomy: The Work of Francis Beaty”, The Easton Irregular, March 2017, p. 10
2016
“Francis Beaty.” Bethlehem House Gallery. January 2016.
Piccione, Steve: “Art| Francis Beaty”, Lehigh Valley Style (review), vol. 17, issue 7, July 2016, p. 16

Collections

2016
Healing Stick No. 3, IF (International Fusionism) Museum, Easton PA
Primordia 5&6, Gallery 415, Catasauqua, PA
Exterior Sculpture

Commissions

Primordia 8, Re:Find / Jon Clark & Ron Sussman Proprietors, Allentown, PA
Exterior sculpture
Sora & Cabled, Hoffman Design Group Rehoboth Beach, DE
Two exterior sculptures

Professional Experience

2019
Group Exhibition Crossing Borders, Ghent, Belgium
Member, Global Arts Project
2017
Hatching Installation, Community Project
PA Trajectory Heart Residency Project, Thomas Mann, Allentown, PA
Guest artist

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2022 
Articulated Movement
, Mill Studios Main Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2021
Suspension , InLiquid, Commerce Square #2, Philadelphia PA
2020
FLUX, Mill Studios Main Gallery, Manayunk, PA
2017
Breaking New Ground, Gallery 724, Allentown PA
Including Hatching Installation
One Artist One Woman, Civic Theater Gallery 514, Allentown PA
Variations on the Square, Fox Optical, Bethlehem PA
Paintings, Pita King, Allentown, PA
2016 - 2017
Portal, Gallery 724, Allentown PA
Installation
2016
Square on Grid Outdoor Exhibition, City Center Park, Allentown PA
Building Textures and Dimension, Blink Optical, Allentown PA
Environments, Gallery 724, Allentown PA
2015
New Textures, Cigar Factory Allentown PA
Installation
Spring Show Cigar Factory, Allentown PA
2000
Petro's Solo Show, Allentown, PA
1999
Baum School, Allentown PA
Installation
1997
Baum School, Allentown PA
Installation
1994
Fox Optical, Bethlehem, PA
1993
Touchstone Theater, Bethlehem, PA
1992
Acorn Gallery, Allentown, PA
Technicolor Salon, Bethlehem, PA

Group Exhibtions

2022                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Santa Fe Art Fair with ADC Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
Art Comes Alive, ADC Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH
Art in the Open Gallery , CFEVA ,Philadelphia, PA
Juried Outdoor Sculptures, Mainline Arts Center, Haverford, PA
Dialogue, City Arts Salon, Philadelphia PA
Saruya AIR Residency , Fujiyoshida, Japan
Buffalo Creek Artist in Residence, Gardnerville, NV
Geuzenmmand World Art Delft, Museum Vlarardingen, Netherlands
Juried Member , Mainline Art Center, Haverford PA
Juried Exhibitions, Works on Paper and Small Works, Powell Lane Arts, Collingswood NJ
Mixture , CFEVA Members Exhibition, Philadelphia PA
2021
Women &  Modernism. Woman/ O, DBS Gallery. Philadelphia PA
REEMERGENCE,  Betsy Meyer Memorial Mainline Art Center. Haverford PA
Sculpture in the Glen III, InLiquid, Gladwyne, PA
Immersion, The Art Trust, West Chester, PA
Rough Around the Edges, The Artist Alliance Online Exhibition
Get Out of Your Skull Project, Museum Vlaardingen, Netherlands
Black, Grey and White, The Art House Gallery March, Online
Geuzenmaand , World Art Delft, Museum Vlaardingen, Netherlands.
2020
Crossing Borders 2, Global Art Project, JPG Gallery, Lafayette, CA
Growth Determined, HOT∙BED Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Spring Up, PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Christine Chateau Campadieu Residency, Ille –sur-Tet, France
Crossing Borders, Global Art Project, Ghent, Belgium
Invisible Landscapes, NoBa Artspaces, Bala Cynwyd, PA
2018
Contemporary Renaissance Women, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2017
Time Will Tell, Ashland University Coburn Gallery, Ashland, OH
Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ
IF (International Fusionism), Bank Street, Easton, PA
Compendium, Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA
2016
Love Is in the Air Gallery 724, Allentown, PA
Bethlehem House Winter Show, Bethlehem House Contemporary Gallery, Bethlehem, PA
1994 - 2003
Marywood College Juried Show, Scranton, PA
Installation crew for Artist Nora Johnson Sculpture, Peoria, IL
Art in the Park West Park, Allentown, PA
Phillipsburg Outdoor Festival, Phillipsburg, NJ
Rose Garden Group Show, Bethlehem, PA
Lehigh Art Alliance Juried Group Shows, Allentown & Bethlehem, PA
1991 - 1995
Open Space Gallery Solo & Group Shows, Allentown, PA
Maria Feliz Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Jim Thorpe, PA
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