William Betts

Achieving the machine made look has been an obsession with many artists since Warhol and Lichtenstein burst onto the scene. Lichtenstein used projectors to draw many of his paintings. He also painted his signature dots to create simplified images that reflect a printing technology used in comic books and advertising. Warhol used the machine like process of serigraph printing to push the ink onto canvas or paper. Even today you can look at a poured painting by Peter Zimmerman or the late work of Scott Barber and you feel that the paintings were made with machine rather than by hand...

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of, William Betts: COLOR SPACE, an exhibition of new paintings by the Miami-based artist. An opening reception will be held April 1st from 5-8 p.m. The exhibition continues through June 10...

Sunbathers enjoying a midday tan, friends goofing off in a pool, a few swimmers hanging by the rocks… these idyllic images take on an entirely different meaning when presented by painter William Betts...

William Betts’ current exhibition, entitled Splash, at Margaret Thatcher Projects offers a subtle peek at the limits of privacy, cased in the guise of celebrating summer fun in the sun... 

Holly Johnson Gallery has paired Jacob El Hanani with William Betts...

Visitors to Inside Out may be surprised to see their own reflections on the walls of Holly Johnson Gallery...

In Inside Out, the artist has created panitings of both outdoor and interior spaces selected for scale and depth...

This year's NAP annual prize has been awarded to Willim Betts...

We live in a society where image is everything...

William Betts replicated "world picture" in his latest body of work, Surveillance.