Susan M. Canning, in: Tales of Wonder and Woe, exhibition catalogue, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY, USA, December 2008
Bettina Sellmann’s paintings Snow White and The Clearing Snow White with her “skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair black as the wood on the window frame,” presents women with a typography of beauty defined by contemplation and purity. The narrative of this tale revolves around a conflict in the […]
Corinna Ripps Schaming, in: Flicker, exhibition brochure, University Art Museum, Albany, NY, 2006
Bettina Sellmann’s paintings evoke the conventions of Old Master portraits, conveying a sense of both mourning and desire articulated through familiar painterly conceits. Using multi-layered, translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and Day-Glo yellows and greens, Sellmann renders delicate watercolors on canvas in which solidity and form immediately break into fluid distortions. By peeling […]
Ann Wilson Lloyd, in: Figuratively Seeing, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2009
Inspired by art historical imagery, Bettina Sellmann creates what she calls “see-through versions” of Old Master paintings. Using watercolor, Sellmann soaks the canvas with pigments to build up veil-like matte layers, punctuated with a few deftly drawn lines. Her minimalist approach belies a Baroque influence, in the drenched and deep colors that accent her sinuous […]
Bettina Sellmann. Taina. Cosmogeny. make your own paper dragon, in: NYAB Event, Nov. 2008
Bettina Sellmann. Taina. Cosmogeny. make your own paper dragon. In: NYAB Event, Nov. 2008
