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Bettina Sellmann (born 1971) is a German artist.
From 1992 to 1997 Sellmann studied and graduated as Meisterschülerin (Master) at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 1999 she was awarded a DAAD grant for New York City, where she lived and worked until 2009. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sellmann also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, NYC.
In her paintings Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas technique[1] in "candy colored acrylic tones (bonbonbunte Acryltöne)"[2] and “multi-layers of translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and acidic yellows and greens“.[3] Works of her have been described as “see-through versions of Old Master paintings ... gone translucent and ethereal“,[4] "particular reverie-inducers“,[5] exploring “the other side of pink“.[6]
Recent paintings deal with kidult and fairy tale "romanticism“ (Cassandra Neyenesch) as well as kawaii imagery and influences of Far Eastern spirituality.
At Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin in 2011 she performed a space clearing, which could be considered either an empty room or "a purely transcendent exhibition“.[7]
She has works in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which holds her drawing The Saints in This World Are Watching[8] (2003).
- ^ Darei Hanna / Chloe Zaug (Eds.), Figuratively Seeing, Editors Darei Hanna and Chloe Zaug, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2009, pp. 58-61 ISBN 0977141950
- ^ Magdalena Kröner. "Mädchen, Mädchen". Feuilleton, Süddeutsche Zeitung Nr. 185, Seite 11, Germany, August 12, 2002.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ University Art Museum (Albany). "Press Release". Archived from the original on 2010-06-12. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ Wilton, Kris (December 18, 2008). "Bettina Sellmann in New York". artinfo.
- ^ Andrew M. Goldstein. "The Clearing". New York Magazine (July 22, 2008).
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|url=(help) - ^ Cassandra Neyenesch. "Bettina Sellmann: Taina . Cosmogony . Make your own paper dragon". Brooklyn Rail, artseen, December 2008.
- ^ "art Das Kunstmagazin on Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin / Los Angeles". Art – Das Kunstmagazin. Archived from the original on 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2012-04-26.
- ^ Sellmann, Bettina Sellmann (2003). "The Saints in This World Are Watching". Museum of Modern Art, New York. Retrieved Mar 3, 2018.