ARTIST STATEMENT: HARRIET BELLOWS
My work encompasses a range of ideas, from figurative to abstract. There are sculptural considerations in my history that very much influence my present ideas. I allow those ideas to develop and take form in what ever means are available to me. Everything is a tool; paper, paint, pencil, digital, prints, plexi-glass, whatever an artist can find and utilize. The honesty of simplicity is one of my major considerations. It involves color, tone, volume and space.
My latest paintings, the Twelve x Twelve Wall Installation of 24 Abstract Paintings, currently on view in my studio at Golden Belt, have been influenced by geographical and architectural ideas. My sense of volume, construction and space has been further developed through thirty years of flying airplanes.
About The Pen and Ink Drawings: Most Frequently Asked Question(s): What ideas have generated these drawings? I think of each drawing as a form of construction. This idea brings in the element of balance and the element of tension associated with balance. These images use a common item, the lemon, as a “building block”. No two lemons are alike. That’s important within these constructions. It allows me to also introduce another element, that of individuality, almost a personality to each.
I drew Six Lemons on my computer, within Adobe Photoshop software using a Wacom Intuous4 Pen and Tablet. It’s the same as using a pen and a piece of paper except that I can control the opacity, the tonality and the intensity of the color line. For me that statement means that I can work with a broader range of gradients or tones, and that translates into the definition of shape and volume.
Harriet Bellows, 2011
ABOUT HARRIET BELLOWS
Private Drawing Study with C.K. Nelson who was a former student of the painter Hans Hofmann.
MFA: NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1971
BFA: NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1968
Exhibitions:
Gallery 311, Group Exhibition, Golden Belt Artists, Raleigh, NC, January 06, 2011
Durham Art Guild Juried Members Exhibition, December 03, 2011
12 x 12 Group Exhibition, Golden Belt Artists, Golden Belt Studios,December 15-16, 2011
Durham Art Guild’s 2011 Annual Members’ Show, June 24 – August 7, 2011, Durham, NC
Craven Allen Gallery, Group Exhibition, April, 2011
North Ridge Country Club Art Gala Juried Competition, Raleigh, NC. March 12, 2011. Juror, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Chief Curator & Curator of Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art
Exhibition of Prints, Salon ICI, Raleigh, NC, June 2010
25Th International Exhibition at the University of Texas at Tyler, TX, January 2010.
Cambridge Art Association National Juried Prize Exhibition,2001
Newton Free Library Gallery Solo Exhibition, Newton, MA, 2000
Selected Participating Artist , DeCordova Museum Corporate Loan Program, 2000-01
Newburyport Art Association 50th. Anniversary Regional Juried Exhibition,
2000 Solo Exhibition at the King Hooper Mansion, Main Gallery, Marblehead, MA, 2000
Art on Tour Group Exhibition, Eight New England Artists at the Tofias Gallery, 2000
Marblehead Arts Association Members Exhibition, 2000, 1999, 1998
75th. Anniversary Exhibition, Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA
Group Show at The Craven Allen Gallery, Durham, Nc, April, 2011
New Work Previewed at The Craven Gallery, Durham, NC, July 15, 2011
Work Experience:
Established studio In Alfred, NY, 1971 – 1984
Instructor, Summer Session, NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, 1974
Corporate Pilot, Flight Instructor: 1983
Airline Pilot: 1989 – 2010, B727, Pilot, Certified Flight Engineer
Member: International Print Center New York, 2010
Full Time Visual Artist: 2010
Awarded Studio at The Golden Belt Artists Studios, Durham, NC. April 1, 2011
Collections:
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Permanent Collection
The Luce Foundation, Smithsonian
The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, The Craft Multiples Show, 1972 (Permanent Collection)
The Mint Museum, The Permanent Collection, Allan Chasanoff Collection, Charlotte, NC
Allen and Kathryn Schultz, Boston, MA, Palm Beach, FL
Allan and Susan Williams, Thompsons Station, TN
Mrs. Olivia Brooks, Greensboro, NC
