BETSY DAMOS |
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BETSY DAMOS betsydamos@betsydamos.com www.betsydamos.com |
Education: |
MFA-Syracuse University, BS-University of Massachusetts |
One-person and Two-person Exhibitions: |
iSight, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, 2014 Two-Person Show, Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2009 Betsy Damos, gallery plan b, Washington, DC, 2007 Glory, outdoor sculpture @ Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2002 Monopoly, outdoor sculpture @ Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 2000 Betsy Damos: New Work, works on paper, Robert Brown Gallery, DC, 1999 Drawing on a Decade, one-person show, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, 1998 Betsy Damos, one-person show, Maryland College of Art & Design, curator, Karen Jelenfy, 1997 Non-traditional-Mar-ri-age, DCAC, curated two-person exhibit, 1996 Theme Park, outdoor sculpture, Robert Brown Gallery, 1994 Forged Futures, installation, School 33, Baltimore, MD, juror, Petah Coyne, 1992 Two-person exhibit, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, 1992 Greater Reston Art Center, VA, two-person exhibit, juror, Komei Wachi, 1992 Arnold and Porter, DC, one person exhibit, curator, Sarah Tanguy, 1991 |
Selected Group Exhibitions: |
Hill Center Regional Juried Exhibition, Washington, DC, 2015 Rehoboth Art League, juried show, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2015 Group Shows, Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE, 2010-2014 Red, The Pink Line Project, DC, 2008 Personal Geometry, McLean Project for the Arts, VA, curator, Nancy Sausser, 2008 Earth in the Balance, The Union of Concerned Scientists, DC, 2008 Deja vu, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, 2006 Idiomatic, Artscape, The Gallery at CCBC, Catonsville, MD, 2006 Remembering the Present, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, 2001 Remembering the Present, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC, invited, 2000 Artscape, Baltimore, MD, curator, Doreen Bolger and Terrie Sultan, jurors, 1999 It's Sculpture, Glory @ The National Public Radio building, DC, curator, Sarah Tanguy, 1999 22 Dollhouses: A View from Washington To Baltimore, UMBC Fine Arts Gallery, 1998 A Place For Everything In Its Place, public art installation, DCCAH, Wash. DC, 1997 All Media, Arlington Arts Center, curator, Bonnie Clearwater, MCA, North Miami, FL, 1997 Convergence IX International Art Festival, outdoor sculpture, Providence, RI, 1996 Intranatura, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD, Olga Viso, curator, 1996 Artscape, outdoor sculpture, Baltimore, MD, Sarah Tanguy, curator, 1995 20+ Chairs, invited, Washington Project for the Arts, 1995 Nature View, Anne Arundel Community College, juror, Lee Fleming, 1994 Across Borders/Sin Fronteras, Art Museum of the Americas, Jack Cowart, curator, 1994 Touch: Beyond the Visual, The Hand Workshop, Richmond, VA, AAC, 1993 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, juror, Terrie Sulton, 1993 Sculpture Now, Washington Square, DC, juror, Jeremy Strick, 1992 New Abstraction, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE, 1992 Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA, juror, Marilyn Zeitlin, 1992 Drawing on Excellence, The Art Barn, juror, Mark Leithauser, 1992 Artscape, Baltimore, MD, juror, Lowery Stokes Sims, 1991 Options, Washington Project for the Arts, DC, curators: Jock Reynolds, Alan Prokop, 1990 Offsite Insight, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA 1989 Changing Chambers, International Sculpture Center, DC, 1989 |
Selected Reviews: |
"Around Town", Bill Dunlap, WETA Television, 2008 "Art and Artists Proliferating Throughout the Inner City As Recent Open Studio Events Attest", Anthony Harvey, The InTowner, 2005 "Remembering the Present", Elaine A. King, Sculpture Magazine, photo, Jan./Feb. 2001 "Sculpture Hits the Streets of the City", Joanna Shaw-Eagle, The Washington Times, 1999 "Sculptor Betsy Damos, interviewed by Karen Jelenfy", Washington Review, photos, 1998 "Creating Big Impact on a Small Scale", John Dorsey, The Sun, Baltimore, photo, 1998 "When Art Meets Craft: A Mutual Understanding", Michael O'Sullivan, The Washington Post, 1996 "Earth Tones", Mike Giuliano, City Paper, March 1996 "Creative Seating Plans", Jura Koncius, Cover Story, Washington Home, The Washington Post; June 8, 1995. "Betsy Damos at Robert Brown", Mary McCoy, The Washington Post, photo, 1994 "Touch: Beyond the Visual", Linda Thern-Smith, The New Art Examiner, photo, 1994 MAP Critic's Residency Program, essay, David Carrier, 1991 |
Selected Activities and Honors: |
Art-O-Matic, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Steering Committee, 1999, 2002) Board of Directors, Washington Project for the Arts (Chair, Program Committee) 1992-1996 Grant Panelist for: DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Craft and Organization Grant-In-Aid Programs), Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (Sculpture Program) Art Auctions: WPS, WPA/Corcoran, Arlington Art Center, GRACE, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, School 33 Art Center, Human Rights Campaign, AIDS Delaware Grant recipient, DCCAH, Mid Atlantic Foundation, VA Commission for the Arts Consultant, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 1987-1990 Author, "Glossary", in An Industrious Art: Innovation in Pattern and Print at The Fabric Workshop, (W.W.Norton, 1991) Proprietor, designer, Damos Textile Design, Washington, DC and Alexandria, VA Co-authored chapter, "Textile Printing" in Screenprinting, Saff, Sacilotto (Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1979) Faculty (tenured) Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, 1970-1979 Proprietor, designer, Damos, New York, NY Textile Designer, various companies, New York, NY |