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Artist Statement:
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Artist Exhibitions:
Celebrating Art of the West
Valley lll
a juried show
May 16 - July 27, 2008
Green Ship of Safety, acrylic
painting by Beth Cornell
Over Coffee - the Coffee Cup
Series during the month of May
2008, Over Coffee is located
at 16572 West Greenway Road,
Surprise, AZ 85388
www.overcoffeeonline....
Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
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Artist Reviews:
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Beth Cornell Biography:
| Biographical information for Beth Cornell can be found below. The artist may choose what information to display. Sometimes the artist chooses not to display personal information to the general public. |
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Age
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41
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| Gender |
Female
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| Status |
Committed
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| Children |
1
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| Religion |
spiritual |
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| Education |
Self Taught |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
motorcycling, drinking coffee, reading |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Acrylic
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Abstract Art - (1910 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
anyone who has honest self-expression
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Calli lili - okeeffe
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Going to see the great self-taught masters of the 20th century at the Kimball Museum in Fort Worth Texas (1997) |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I did not become an artist, I am becoming an artist, every day... art is my life, I'm committed to living it every day. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Born in western Pennsylvania, Beth Cornell was influenced by the local flavors of folk art. She was painting gang members jackets and doing business as an "artist" from age 12. As happens sometimes, the grown ups in her life encouraged her to learn a trade, printing was the trade that Beth learned. She became a press operator, utilizing her skills with color, at the peak of her career she worked for the Department of Defense, Army in Germany. It was at the moment in time that life shifted suddenly, she became pregnant with her daughter and could not tolerate the chemicals present in the printing trade. At the same time, she learned of her return to the US.
Beth's life took many wild turns with the birth of a daughter, the loss of a profession and an intercontinental move that would land her family in the Great Flood of 1993 (St Louis, MO)... she slowly began to make peace with change. Picking up a paint brush for the first time since her stint as gang member jacket painter, she began to express using bold colors and abstract themes. These early paintings were signed BoseC, a name given to her by a girlfriend joking about her bossy nature. Beth would sign her creations BoseC for the next 9 years. Many of those paintings were given as gifts, several were sold, only a few remain and even fewer are available for sale.
Meditation is Beth's daily practice, themes from her meditation journeys and from visions that she constantly receives had a birth place in the paintings. The paintings became ways to express the inner conflicts and contradictions of life as it is... and ways to express the immeasurable joy and sorrow that can be found in experiencing life as a human being.
In 2004 Beth began to sign her work with her birth name... slowly building a local following by exhibiting with local businesses, galleries and the First Fridays art walk, Beth's work gained local recognition.
In 2008, Beth will travel to Los Angeles for the Raw Arts Festival, a festival of self-taught intuitive art that has international acclaim.
Press Release: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/pdf/2008/01/09/press_release_38405.pdf
Beth's Web Site: http://www.bethcornell.com
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