Betsy Cain
Betsy Cain is a multi-media painter living in Savannah, Georgia. She was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on the University of Alabama campus and grew up in Fairfield, Alabama, the steel mill city near Birmingham. She received both her BFA and MFA degrees from The University of Alabama, but did formative undergraduate work at Auburn University and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
After receiving her degrees, she worked in both Alabama and Georgia’s Artist-in Schools Programs, working with students from all grade levels and abilities. On the culmination of a national grant through The Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico in 1981, she and her husband David Kaminsky, a photographer, moved to Savannah, Georgia. For the past thirty eight years she has maintained a dedicated independent studio practice in Savannah.
Cain’s work includes paintings, works on paper and cut-outs, influenced by the salt marshes, tidal creeks and barrier islands surrounding her home in Savannah. Her works has been shown in museums, galleries, artists installations and curated invitational exhibitions including the Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM; MOCAGA, Atlanta, GA; the Telfair Museum’s Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; the Macon Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, Georgia, as well as solo exhibitions at Laney Contemporary Gallery, Savannah; Florida Mining Gallery in Jacksonville, Fl and Robert Steele Gallery in NYC, among others.
Currently, her work is touring Georgia Museums in Cut & Paste, Works on Paper, Highlighting Contemporary Art in Georgia, organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia and the Lyndon House Arts Center, Athens Georgia, curated by Didi Dunphy.
It is currently at the Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Aug 17 - Nov 14, 2019.
Publications including monographs and catalogs of curated exhibitions by the Georgia Museum, Jepson Museum, Studio Visit, New American Painting, Georgia Triennial, Macon Museum of Art, and Roswell Museum of Art
“I continue to be interested in edges, the edge between the figurative and the abstract, the horizon, the division between what we know and what we don’t know. I like “not knowing” and take that uncertainty into my work as I explore and experiment with the physics of various media looking for that place where the suggestion of presence is there, realized but not too refined.”