Betty Woodman

Urodzony: 1977

Biografia:

Elizabeth "Betty" Woodman was an American ceramic artist.
She began her career in the 1950s as a production potter, but her decision to become a potter dates back to her teenage years, when she took a class in high school and became "fascinated with the magic of ceramic glaze." She attended the School for American Craftsmen at Alfred University, where she created a custard cup for an assignment for a production piece.
Her career moved from functional pottery to fresh and exuberant art culminating in a retrospective show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2006 and a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2016 with the very appropriate title Theatre of the Domestic. She taught for thirty years at the University of Colorado sharing her energy for ceramics with her students.
Betty Abrahams married the artist, George Woodman, in 1953. Together, they had two children: the electronic artist, Charles Woodman, and the photographer, Francesca Woodman. The story of these four artists was told in C. Scott Willis's documentary, The Woodmans (2010). She died in January 2018 of natural causes, less than a year after her husband's death (the previous March).
Woodman's awards and honors include:
Woodman has exhibited at museums and galleries in the US and internationally, including:
Woodman's work is included in public collections, including:
In the 1991 documentary Thinking Out Loud, Woodman is interviewed by curator and painter John Perreault. In 2006 the monograph, Betty Woodman, was produced in conjunction with her retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and it includes curatorial essays by Janet Koplos, Barry Schwabsky, and Arthur Danto.

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