Artist Reception: Beth DeWit

Join us for a reception for artist Beth DeWit!

Artist’s Statement

Portraits invite us into the landscape of the other. We are free to gaze without the self- conscious distance we create when we are face to face. Often that distance has been imposed upon us through social conditioning, preconceptions and misconceptions.

Through my paintings, I hope to offer viewers an opportunity to extend that gaze and to consider the faces before them; feel the subject’s presence, their value and contemplate the light inside that waits for us to bear witness.

Biography

Beth DeWit is an artist of diverse experience and is primarily self-taught. Her focus is portraiture as a means to find human connections through the vehicle of the body and the gaze. She has worked as a Decorative Painter for 24 years in the New York Metro area.

Beth is a recipient of a 2023 Arts Alive Individual Artists Grant through Artswestchester and the New York State Council on the Arts. She has exhibited widely throughout New York.

Currently a board member of Peekskill Arts Alliance, Beth holds a Bachelor’s Degree in English Literature from the University of Iowa. She is also a ERYT (Experienced registered Yoga Teacher). She lives in Peekskill, NY.

Visit her website for more information.