Betty McGeehan
McGeehan Studio LLC
Chatham, New Jersey, United States
Sculpture
Explore the artistic vision and craftsmanship of Betty McGeehan
About the Artist
Betty McGeehan, from Morristown, NJ, is a self-taught artist. She has been the recipient of numerous awards including NJ State Council on the Arts Fellowship 2003, and three Dodge Foundation Fellowships.
Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE and many college and university galleries. Her work has been represented in Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ; Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; Visual Arts Center of NJ; Noyes Museum of Arts, NJ; Sculptors Guild, NY, NY; and the National Sculpture Society, NY, NY.
In 2010, McGeehan’s work was in two movies. Her sculpture has been reviewed in the New York Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer. AT&T, NJ; Bristol-Meyers Squibb, NJ; Coco-Cola, Atlanta, GA; Chubb Group, NJ; Shering Plough, NJ; Toyota, NY; James Michener Art Museum, PA; Sprint, Kansas City, MO; Wesley Jessen, Chicago, IL; Noyes Museum, NJ; Morris Museum of Art, NJ; The Museum of Modern Art Library, NY, NY; and the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ, are some of the many museum and corporate collections which include her sculptures.
Artist Statement
This series was born from a sense of peace, rhythm and wisdom I have acquired from forty years of artistic exploration. The flow of form and color, which I weave into distinct, bold lines, speaks to my playful, optimistic navigation of life within a more confined structure.
By liberating flat planes and frames of wood from their predictive symmetry, I am breaking free from the forms and subject matter that informed my earlier sculpture. While strong lines are prominent in all my pieces, they are merely the bones of the work. It is the bold lines of intersecting color, form and bent wood that are the pulsing blood.
The viewer will no doubt associate the various shapes and lines in these works with the everyday objects, grids and linear compositions that make up our environment, both natural and manmade. But, it is the highly energetic “strokes” of bent wood lines that speak to the organic energy latent in all forms, regardless of time and space.