NEW YEAR, NEW ART
recent works by new gallery artists
January 2 – February 13, 2021
Pull Quote
Through savage distortions of the human face and body, Beth Carter showcases a human desire to see ourselves as separate from the natural world while highlighting our inability to ever truly achieve separation from the animal within.
Biography
Beth Carter is a visual artist based in Bristol, UK, and an Academician at the Royal West of England Academy, UK. Carter’s sculpture and drawings often morph the human figure with animal, creating mythological creatures and extraordinary fictional compositions. She is represented by galleries in the UK, the USA and Belgium and has work in private collections across Europe, the USA, Canada, South America, Asia and Australia and in the permanent collections of collections of the Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, France, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, USA and the New Salem Museum and Academy of Fine Art, Massachusetts, USA.
Artist Statement
“Working within the realms of a sculptural tradition where the symbolic use of animal imagery is a potent and continuous source, my work creates allegories by, amongst other things, integrating the human form with animal forms. The resulting imagery holds both a timeless significance and a contemporary relevance despite and because of our separation from the natural world. It is important for me that my sculpture and drawings are accessible on an individual level as well as implicating more archetypal themes common to human experience.”
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1995 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Sunderland University, UK
1994 Placement at the Cyprus College of Art, Cyprus
1991 Period of study at the Academy of Fine Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
1991 Art Foundation, Bath College of Further Education, UK
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Solo Exhibition - Soul Stories, Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
2021 Presence (group exhibition), LKFF Art Projects, Beersel, Belgium
Summer Collective II - Hugo Galerie, SoHo, NY, USA
Solo Exhibition, Beaux Arts Bath, Bath, UK
Exhibition Collective, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston, USA
New Year New Art, Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2020 Beasts (Two Artist Exhibition), Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Solo Exhibition - There is no dark until something shines..., Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
Art In Doom (Springtime Group Exhibition), Ferrara Showman Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA
Art We Love (Winter Group Exhibition), M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston MA, USA
Winter Collective II, Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath, London, UK
SOFA Sculpture Projects Functional Art and Design, Hugo Galerie, Chicago, USA
2019 Solo Exhibition – New Sculptures, Beaux Arts Bath, Bath, UK
Market Art and Design, Hugo Galerie, Bridgehampton Museum, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
Back to the Drawing Board, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Solo Exhibition – Power and Vulnerability, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston MA, USA
RWA Sculpture Open Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, LKFF Art and Sculpture Projects, Brussels, Belgium
London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath, London, UK
2018 As the Crow Flies, Bo Lee Gallery, London, UK
Solo Exhibition – Minotaur -The Golden Thread, Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
Magical Realism, Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
Hybridization and duality, LKFF Art and Sculpture Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Mythos, Charlie Smith London, London, UK
Solo Exhibition – Shadow Stories, LKFF Art and Sculpture Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
2017 Solo Exhibition of New Work, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
Exhibition with Helen Flockhart, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Making Bronzes, Milwyn Casting, The Lightbox Gallery and Museaum, Woking, UK
London Art Fair, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
Group Show, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston MA, USA
2016 Solo Exhibition - Between the Ancients and Me, Hugo Galerie, Soho, NY, USA
Group Show, Panter and Hall, London, UK
Artists of Fame and Promise, Beaux Arts Bath, UK
Chuchoter À Travers La Rivière, Hugo Galerie (NY) at Stanek Galerie, Philadelphia, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, M Fine Arts Galerie, Boston MA, USA
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea, London, represented by Beaux Arts Bath, UK
London Art Fair, Islington, London, represented by Beaux Arts Bath, UK
Winter Fête Group Show, Georges Bergès Gallery, Soho, New York, USA
2015 ODYSSEY, Bo.Lee Gallery, The Chapel of The House of St Barnabas, London, UK
