Betsy Ruth Byers - Artist Reception

Gallery Show - Beckon 

by Betsy Ruth Byers 

Exhibition August 12 – October 27 

Artist Reception Thursday, August 15, 5:30–7:00 pm Hors d’oeuvres & cash bar

Hors d’oeuvres:

Salmon Skewers 

Pita Hummus Bites 

Bruschetta on Foccaccia 

Corn Gazpacho Shooters

Betsy Ruth Byers Artist Bio:

Betsy Ruth Byers holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Studies with an emphasis in painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and  Design. She is currently a professor in the Art and Art History Department at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Her work has  been shown both nationally and internationally. She has exhibited at the  National Gallery of Scotland, the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the De Vos Art  Museum, the Hillstrom Museum of Art, the University of Connecticut, Augsburg College,  and the University of Minnesota Morris. Byers has been awarded two National Science  Foundation Grants, a Kolman & Reeb Project Space Grant, a McKnight Mid-Career Artist Grant, and a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. She is represented by  Kolman & Reeb Gallery and Rosalux Gallery in Minneapolis.  Byers’ abstract landscape paintings are rooted in the sensory experience of the natural  world and seek to activate a visceral and tactile relationship with the viewer.