Artist Statement

Beth Hartmann’s sculpture reflects the feelings left after she has viewed objects in nature or people interacting. Using her own techniques and alternative reflective or translucent materials, she constructs objects and installations which work to provoke viewer reactions.

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Solo Shows

• 2011   “Trunkated” 1 California Street, San Francisco
• 2005   ”Lips”   500 Howard Gallery San Francisco, CA
• 2001   “Marine Forms”   Mendocino Art Center
• 2000   Installations,   WORKS San Jose,
• 1999   Sculpture and Installation, Gallery OBOY, San Francisco, CA
  Stitched Lips, Josephine County Library, Grants Pass, OR

Selected  Exhibits

• 2021-present Sebastopol Sculpture Garden Public Art Exhibit
• 2019 – present  25 Million Stitches Touring Exhibit
• 2011-present Cloverdale Sculpture Trail Public Art Exhibits
• 2020 Fiber Sebastopol Center for the Arts
• 2019 Points of Departure MONCA, Chico, CA
• 2016 International Fiber, Sebastopol, CA
• 2007   Calabash, Forestville, CA|
  Grantees exhibit, Surface Design Conference, Kansas City, KS
  Inja Designs, Evolving Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2006   Fiber/DIMENSIONS, Pence Gallery  Davis, CA
  Pick up Six  Atrium Sculpture Gallery 600 Townsend, San Francisco, CA
  Tohono Chul Park, Tuscon AZ   (catalogue)
  Cloverdale Outdoor Sculpture (June – September)
• 2005   City of Sebastopol Public Art, Spooner Park  (leader, team project)
  Fiber at the Bay Model, Sausalito, CA
• 2004   Context, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA
  City of Sebastopol Sculpture Jam, Spooner Park
  Human Form, Sebastopol Art Center
• 2003   Naked, a Clothing Show 1078 Gallery, Chico
  Fine Hand, Artisan’s, Mill Valley
• 2002     ArToys Sewanee Art Gallery, Tennessee
  Refuse, Reuse, Redux, Santa Cruz Art Museum
  International Quilt Week Yokohama, Japan
  Plastic Fantastic  1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
• 2001   Reality Check, Ohio Craft Museum, Columbus, OH
  Transforming Trash, Redding Museum of Art  (catalogue)
  MESH Gallery, Sebastopol
• 2000     Marin Technologies Lobbies, San Rafael
  600 Townsend Atrium, San Francisco
• 1999   InSight Gallery, San Francisco
  Collage, Sonoma Arts Guild, Rene diRosa, Juror
  Matrix Gallery, Sacramento (4 person)
  College of Marin, Six Former Students, KentfieldOn and Of Paper, Koret Gallery, Palo Alto
• 1997   Claudia Chapline Gallery, Stinson Beach
  Chemeketa Gallery, Salem, OR  (4 person)
  California Artists,  Gallery Strasse, Kyoto, Japan
  Sculpture & Sculptural Photography, Sebastopol Art Center
• 1996   String Symphony, Artfibers Gallery, San Francisco
  Future Vision, The Dragon Center, Yamonashi-Ken, Japan
  Feminine Spirit, Wilson Street Gallery, Santa
• 1995   Fibrations, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley
  All Saints, All Souls,  Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael
  Marin Arts Council Exhibit, Town Center, Corte Madera
• 1994   Fiber Dimensions Exhibit, Corte Madera Town Center
  Dakotas International, Vermillian, SD       (catalogue)
  Baskets and Beyond, Artisans Gallery, Mill Valley

Awards

• Fellowship, Artist Residency Jentel
• Surface Design Grant, 2005
• Artisans Gallery, Second Place, Rachel Osajima, Juror
• Marin Exposition, Second Place
• Sebastopol Art Center, July 1997 Merit Award, Manuel Neri, Juror
• Artisans Gallery, Award of Excellence, Tran Turner, Juror
• Crocker-Kingsley Annual,  Second Place, Phil Linhares, Juror
• Olive Hyde Gallery Annual Textiles Show First Place
• California Works Merit Award

Publications

• Independent Journal June 10, 2024
• CloverdaleReveille, August 2018
• QuARTerly, Summer, 2005
• Surface Design  Spring 2005 Reviews
• Artweek  June 2001, Reviews
• Fiberarts  Nov/Dec 2000, Reviews
• Surface Design  Winter 1999, Reviews
• San Francisco Arts Monthly  February 1999
• American Craft  August 1997,  Aquisitions
• Fiberarts  Jan/Feb 1997,  New Works section
• Pacific Sun   March 20 1996, ARTS
• Internet re:College of Marin art program,  http://www.marin.cc.ca.us/~lelke/art/fiberscu.html
• Pacific Sun  October 26 1994, ARTS
• San Jose Mercury News Alameda Co. Edition 4/14/94
• Oakland Tribune 4/2/94

Professional Associations, selected

• Surface Design Association, Sebastopol Center for the Arts
• Fiber Dimensions, S.F. Bay Area
• Sebastopol Center for the Arts

Education

• Undergraduate Studies and Bachelor’s Degree, University of Washington, Seattle
• Dimensional textile work with Carole Beadle and Sylvia Seventy
• Papermaking with Amanda Degener, Bob Nugent, Shawn McFarland, Linda Ortiz, Nance O’Banion, DeYoung Museum
• Other Art Courses at Sonoma State University, Mendocino Art Center, and other locations

Related Experience, selected

• Lead artist Sculpture Jam, Sebastopol public sculpture 2011-present
• Chair, “Intersections III”  San Francisco Presidio
• Invited Co-Curator Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica CA
• Invited Co-Curator MONCA Chico CA
• Artist co-ordinator 2003 – 2007 for City Community Garden/skatepark
• Show Co-ordinator and Curator artists books show Sonoma Arts Council
• Invited Art Instructor Junior High and High Schools, Sonoma and Marin Counties
• Guest Curator WORKS San Jose
• Installation Chair of Beyond Boundaries College of Marin Art Gallery September 1999 with Ted Cohen
• Juror, AAUW Open Grants Pass, OR, 1998
• Show Chair & Curator Downtown Art Center  July/August 1997, San Rafael CA

Collections, selected

• Arlen Hunt, Kensington, CA
• Susan Scott, Ventura, CA
• Joey Liik, Upper Lake, CA, outdoor sculpture
• Ken Martin, Santa Rosa, CA  outdoor sculpture
• Nancy and Darrell Horn, Santa Rosa, CA
• Tran Turner, Oakland, CA
• Hisako Eto, Osaka & Kobe, Japan
• Stieg, DDS, San Francisco
• Sandidge, AIA, Sausalito
• City of Sebastopol
• Bursch, Red Hook, NY