William Betts

Holly Johnson Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of William Betts: A Man, A Plan, The Full Moon, - Yucatán, an exhibition of recent large scale stencil paintings by the California based artist. A reception will be held February 17^th from 4 to 7 p.m. The exhibit continues through May 4...

A man, a plan, a full moon, - Yucatán

Postcards from the Yucatán

When I was 12 years old, my mother gave me a Pentax SLR camera for Christmas. After Christmas, my father took us on a post-Christmas vacation to Mexico. Throughout the trip I took pictures of all the sites. Rolls and rolls of film. We started in Mexico City and then we went out to Merida. For some reason on that trip, I fell in love with Merida and the Yucatán. Maybe it was the sultriness of the city, maybe it was the comfort of the scale after the vastness of Mexico City. There was something about Merida and the Yucatán that really resonated. We stayed at the Hotel Merida in Centro, and we explored the city and the central market, we went to all the ruins at Uxmal and the surrounding area, we went to a cenote. We were only in Merida for three days, but it left a lasting impression. I often thought about Merida and returning there to see how it changed, but I never did...

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...