August/September Featured Artist Betty Ross (Aug. 5, 2016 & Sep. 2, 2016)
5:00-7:30PM

Betty Ross invites chance and seeks harmony in her studio practice. She endeavors to capture, in the words of Hilton Als, the "rush and chaos of nature" by using different modes and diverse artistic mediums. Ross trained as an art historian and has an MA in Theatre from UC Berkeley. She designed and made costumes for UCCS's Theatreworks from 1976 to 2015. She travels extensively and incorporates ideas gained from these rich experiences into both paintings and costumes. She often works onsite in watercolor, using the information for larger acrylic works in the studio, sometimes adding collage elements, torn paper fragments, antique laces, leather, or shreds of wool.
"The gaps between abstraction and the real are actually what fascinate me as a painter-- often filled with a narrative or strong emotion that drives the process whether at a pond in Derbyshire, or a cabin in the Sangres." -- Betty Ross