Betty's Art Exhibitions

Current Exhibit

Drawings from the UFO series
New Drawings by painter Mary Begley
January 23 - March 18, 2012

"Eggheads" - oil pastel on black paper, 18" x 15"

Artist Statement
In these abstract works you look into an atmospheric landscape but more precisely it is a convergence of time and space. An entity surrounded by their environment is a universal concept, whether it is from what we call reality or in the realm of the sub-conscience. In my current body of work, The UFO series, I expand this theory to encompass extra-terrestrial themes.

Artist Bio
A Buffalo native raised in Saratoga, New York, Begley returned to her hometown to acquire her BFA at Buffalo State and her MFA from The University of Buffalo. Her work has appeared in Buffalo at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Big Orbit, Indigo, and Hallwalls Gallery to name just a few, as well as throughout the United States. Among her accomplishments, Begley is a1998 NYFA Painting Fellow. She was more recently awarded an individual artist grant from the Saltonstall Foundation in 2007 and a NYFA MARK artist in 2009. In addition to her career as a painter she is the Label Manager at Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records, a place where art and commerce can coexist.