Magdalena Kröner, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung – Feuilleton, 12. August 2002
CLICK HERE for article (scroll down for English version) Süddeutsche Zeitung – Feuilleton Monday August 12, 2002 Girl, Girl. Teen Spirit: How Women Artists rediscover „Girlism“ By Magdalena Kroener Here we go again: Adolescence is once more the fashion of the hour. Especially female adolescence, the Lolita complex, does by far not […]
Bettina Sellmann on her paintings, in: Paint: The Seen, the Unseen and the Imagined, catalogue, Messums Wiltshire, Tisbury, UK, 2019
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: Pressetext US PAINTINGS, in: Trendkraft, Online-Magazin, 18. April, 2015
Andrew Goldstein, in: New York Magazine online Art Candy, July 22, 2008
Kris Wilton, in: artinfo, online magazine, December 18, 2008
Cassandra Neyenesch, in: The Brooklyn Rail, December 2008
Bettina Sellmann, in: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, USA
