Betsy Ruth Byers - Artist Reception
Thu, Aug 15
|The Woman's Club of Minneapolis
Time & Location
Aug 15, 2024, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
The Woman's Club of Minneapolis , 410 Oak Grove St, Minneapolis, MN 55403, USA
About the Event
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.