Beach Day, 2020, oil on canvas 16” x 20”, from the “Color of Sound” series.

Artist Statement

My artistic practice is rooted in the phenomena of seeing, hearing, and experiencing a specific environment. I respond to nature and the environment through reference to the body, entropy/extropy, and the power of color and light. My intention is to preserve and bring awareness to the ephemeral and social significance of the natural environment.

Betty Wilde-Biasiny Bio

Betty.Wilde-Biasiny@sunyempire.edu

Betty Wilde-Biasiny is known for her perceptual interpretations of nature, achieved through an immersion into specific experienced environments. Recent themes include “The Life of Plants”, includ-ing watercolors referencing the effects of global warming on plants and the environment; and intimate landscape and garden scenes from her rural Hudson Valley environment.

Betty Wilde-Biasiny is a painter, printmaker, curator, and educator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1954). She earned her MFA, from Columbia University (1978); and BFA, from Ohio University (1976). Wilde-Biasiny is the recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Indi-vidual Artist Award. She is a tenured Professor of Visual Arts at SUNY Empire State College, where she has worked since 1998. She has recently completed a digital text along with two col-leagues, titled “The Art of Digital Printmaking: A Creative Guide to Digital Painting, Collage, and Photomontage”.

Public collections include the United States Library of Congress, Print Collection, Washington, D.C. and a commission for a public mural for Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York. Exhibi-tions include the Studio Art Center International (SACI) Gallery, Florence, Italy; Usdan Gallery/Bennington College; the Wood-stock Artists Association and Museum, New York; and John Jay College; 55 Mercer Gallery, Kentler International Drawing Center, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Painting Center, all New York City.

Before beginning her work at Empire State University, Wilde-Biasiny worked as a teaching artist in the South Bronx, founded the Bronx River Restoration Environmental Art Center, became a curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Associate Di-rector/Editor for En Foco, Inc.