Past Exhibits

Betty Dare  Art Gallery

Define: Art | Feb 27 – Mar 27, 2010 | Wed – Sat, 10:00am – 6:00pm

art1 [ahrt] the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Betty Dare’s Define: Art Exhibit is an introspective view into the elite world that defines what is beautiful and important.

Artists exhibited present an astute perspective on art market participants, demonstrate changing trends in artistic production, and offer unique insight on how a world so divided by rich and poor is united by one element.

Featured work will be by Baltazar Castillo. View Featured Profile Here.

 

Jim Lively's "Grey Non-Conformist” collection brings attention to the small group of curators, dealers, and critics that deem specific art as quality.

Lively depicts interesting juxtapositions of images on the same canvas to challenge the viewer to determine the meaning of the relationship.

Livley is an attorney on permanent sabbatical from practicing law to pursue his career full-time as a contemporary figurative and abstract artist. His work has been well received and recognized in numerous juried exhibits. He has exhibited across North America and is scheduled for solo exhibits in 2010 respectively in New York City, Montreal and Ft. Lauderdale.

 

 

Tanya Gramatikova’s collection brings attention to the life of an artist. They say artists need chaos in order to bring it structure in their work. Therefore, many artists live eccentric, enduring, and turbulent lifestyles. In this collection, Gramatikova highlights the life of Frida Kahlo, whose life was notoriously summed up by these qualities and whose work was appreciated by all.

The photographs Gramatikov takes are self portraits. From Bulgaria, Gramatikov is new to exhibiting work in America.




Barbar Rachko’s collection discusses the documentation of human experience in art. Rachko earned a commercial pilot’s license and Boeing 727 flight engineer’s certificate, then spent seven years on active duty as a Naval officer. In 1986 while working at the Pentagon, she began to study figure drawing and medical anatomy, and began many long years of developing her craft. Barbara subsequently resigned from active duty (but remained in the Navy Reserve and retired as a Commander) to devote herself to making art. On 9/11 Barbara’s life was changed forever when her husband, Dr. Bryan C. Jack, was killed on the plane that hit the Pentagon. She is represented by six galleries throughout the United States, exhibits nationally and internationally, and continues to win accolades, including a 2008 – 2009 Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation award, for her unique work.


Jonathan Mandell’s collection discusses the public's involvement in art. His mosaics are on permanent display at the National Constitution Center, The National Liberty Museum, The University of Pennsylvania and at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA, the McGraw Hill Company in New York, Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, PA among other sites throughout the country. Jonathan’s newest public commission is a sculptural mosaic installation created for the lobby of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, IL. His mosaics have been featured in The Bel Aire Hotel Magazine, Glass Art Magazine, and The Penn Gazette. Mandell’s talent lies in the implementation of fundamental fine art concerns such as perspective, color composition and drawing into the medium of mosaic. Utilizing such materials as glass shards, ceramic tile, semiprecious stones, minerals, mirror, marbles, Mandell creates wall-mounted panels which evolve into tactile paintings. His grout lines act as drawing lines, bringing his imagery to life. The glass shards are not flat, but rather are convex and concave pieces. This allows for a study of the surface topography of the mosaic.

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