ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My pieces involve my love and intense passion for nature. When I am in nature I feel spiritually connected to a power greater than myself. Most recently I have done a series of trees in different seasons, times of day and changing light. I put two similar pieces together, When they are together they respond to and change each other still retaining their own identity. I walk outside and take mental pictures of my surroundings. I take photos of those images that stand out for me. That is the place to start.

BIOGRAPHY

Betty-Ann Hogan has had five solo shows in the Chelsea District of NY. She also exhibited at Queens Council on the Arts, the Queens Museum, Omni Gallery in Long Island, Anthony Giordano Gallery, Long Island, Marymount College, Manhattan, St Peters Church Gallery, Manhattan, Hal Katzen Gallery, Soho ,PS1 MOMA, Long Island City,New York and the Adrich Museum, Connecticut. She is also a member of the New York Society for Women Artists.

She had an artist grant at PS1 MOMA, which led to the birth of Independent Studios 1, the first artists co-op in Long Island City. She was a founding member She was accepted to the Macdowell colony and did a visiting artist program in the New York City school system in the South Bronx. This was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. She attended Queens College, and was an fine art major, and got her BA. She studied with Louis Finkelstein, Charles Cajori, John Ferren Then she went to the New York Studio School and studied with Mercedes Matter, Milton Resnick, Leland Bell. She attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and there studied with Walter Murch and Elmer Bischoff. She also attended the Aspen School of Contemporary Art and at the end of the summer traveled to New Mexico and visited Georgia O’Keeffe.