Re - paintings: My recent paitings are meditative, spiritual and personal. Combinations of image and object that come forth usually slowly and with wonder and trust. They’re puzzles that surprise me
Re - Collages: Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Bettina Nelson is a Philadelphia-based artist whose practice prioritizes paper-based works that thoughtfully yet unselfconsciously combine abstraction, figuration, and the possibilities of the provisional. Her colorful mixed-media collages take place in the structure of an open book, with the facing pages offering the format of diptychs and suggesting a continuing story that will always remain unseen. These collages deploy non-local color and the ambiguity of abstract forms and gestures, while also suggesting the specificity of a certain place and time. Both Nelson’s collages and drawings evoke the suspension of the self in the subconscious world of ideas and stories and make analogies to the feelings of passing through a dream or being on the brink of a memory. Nelson holds a B.F.A. in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. (Someone wrote this, I’m not sure who and I agree with it).
Re - drawings: I let my inner adolescent draw what she wanted. it’s in there