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Beth Loftin |
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Accolades: 1999 Jackson Hole Fall Arts Fesival Poster Artist
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Bio:
They are the lost, the forgotten-photographs of the West's pioneers that slipped from family albums into the eddies of antique stores and garage sales. There they wait, black and white images vacant of life and memory until someone like painter Beth Loftin brings them home. These characters are the driving influence of her work. By searching through old familly albums and dusty historical archives, she pulls people from the not-so-distant past that seem to have slipped from our memories much too quickly in our fast paced and technological reliant age.
Many of her paintings depict the people of the late 19th Century that left family and past behind them to come to an uncertain and often hostile home in the Central Plains of the U.S. With them, they carried symbols of hope and beauty such as seeds and flowers to plant in their new world. Back when the quest for basic necessities molded a person's character, survival depended on adaptation.
Though old photographs are her subject, Loftin's imagination dictates the color on her canvases. She uses high key and high contrast colors to create a feeling of triumph over change, but with an undercurrent of bittersweeet emotion. Such contrasts and dichotomies form the foundation of her work.
Beth was born in the Osage Hills of north-central Oklahoma in 1961. She received a full art scholarship from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. After working as an art teacher and gallery manager, Ms. Loftin has worked exclusively as a visual artist since 1990. Her credentials are lengthy and impressive. |
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Billy Bullock |
Oil
48x38
$8,750 |
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