Betty Woodman is a ceramic artist that is known for her work worldwide as a ceramic artist. She has done many great pieces and is known worldwide for her work. She has received many awards and lifetime achievements her pieces are in many studios and museums. What makes her work great and makes it stand out against everyone's else's work.
Betty Woodman is from Norwalk Connecticut and was born in 1930 during the Great Depression. She is a contemporary ceramic artist, she has been known and inspired by the artistic traditions of Italy and Mediterranean region and is also marked by Chinese and modernist influences the weird creative work that she does. She loves to play with form and has been inventing and reinventing traditional forms and producing exuberant and brightly colored works since the 1950s. Her work always plays …show more content…
Betty Woodman became involved with the pattern and decoration movement and began to emphasize surface design. Pillow Pitchers came out of this and is most well-known design. They have a clear correspondence between form and meaning. They are so simple but so different at the same time. She would also paint wall pieces and large-scale installations styles. Around the 1990s her forms became more diagrammatic and cubist in appearance. She also began creating multi-part wall installations. This would play with shifts between two and three dimensionalities with a stress on the negative space between objects. The space in between the pieces is as important as the pieces themselves. Some of them lay flat against the wall others are away from the wall. The accepts of surprise and the different nature of her work makes her special. Her work is in more than fifty museums. She also has over hundred solo exhibitions around the world. Her 2006 retrospective at the metropolitan museum was the first show to be given to a ceramic