Beth Ames Swartz Artist-In-Residence Evening
- Dates: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
- Time: 6:30pm
- Admission: $125 per person (all inclusive)
- Reservations: 602 955-7878
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Beth Ames Swartz has had more than 70 one-person art exhibitions and she received the Governor’s Individual Artist Award in 2001. Her paintings honor differences among cultures, using symbols and words to represent concepts shared by people of widely different philosophic world views. Internationally known art critic Donald Kuspit says Swartz paints in a form of “surreal expressionism” and that her landscapes possess “. . . an uncanny, hallucinatory quality.” The poetry that Swartz incorporates into her paintings adds to their meaningfulness . . . both the paintings and the poems are spiritually intense and poignant, but integrating them makes for a spiritual richness and emotional depth that neither are capable of alone. Her work may be found in many public collections such as those at the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution); the Jewish Museum, New York; the Phoenix Art Museum; the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum, New York as well as many corporate and individual collections. Her work will be on display during the dinner.