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 CV

Betty.Wilde-Biasiny@esc.edu

Betty Wilde-Biasiny is a painter/printmaker and a full professor in visual arts at SUNY/ Empire State College In New York. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award for Individual Artists, has an MFA from Columbia University, and a BFA from Ohio University.

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. Solo exhibitions include the Studio Art Center International (SACI) Gallery, Florence, Italy; Usdan Gallery/Bennington College; John Jay College; 55 Mercer Gallery, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Painting Center, all in New York City.

Before beginning her work at Empire State College, 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 Director/Editor for En Foco, Inc.