Beth Galston

environmental sculpture

email: bgalston@aol.com

web: www.bethgalston.com

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biography

Beth Galston is a sculptor who builds architectural-scale environments based on the interplay of light and space. For over twenty years she has built a diverse body of work including sculptural installations and objects, large scale public sculptures and collaborative multi-media performances. Using a range of media — resin, glass, metal mesh, natural materials, lights, electronics — she creates multilayered spaces through which viewers move and interact. Whether outdoors, in a gallery or in the theater, her sculptures create a sense of place, a moment of magic or transformation.

Galston was born in Los Angeles and lives in Carlisle, MA. She received a Master's degree in environmental art from MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where she was also a fellow for five years. Her installations have been exhibited nationally, including Wave Hill, NYC; Yeshiva University Museum, NYC; Lehman College Gallery of Art, NYC; Institute of Contemporary Art, ME; DeCordova Museum, MA; Rose Art Museum, MA; Currier Gallery of Art, NH; MIT Museum, MA; Berkshire Museum, MA; Spheris Gallery, VT; and Nelson Atkins Museum, MO. She currently working on a large-scale luminous environment using LEDs and translucent resin forms cast from nature for Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, NYC.

Major public works include: "Colorwalk," a sculpture of colored glass for an eighty-foot-long pedestrian walkway at the Mesa Arts Center, AZ; "Thunderbird Bridge," a vehicular bridge for an eight lane freeway in Phoenix, AZ; and "Tree/House," an outdoor architectural sculpture at Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC. Beth is currently working on a Serpentine Fence Sculpture for South Street Mall in Jamaica Plain, MA in collaboration with a Ray Dunetz Landscape Architecture.

Galston is the recipient of numerous awards, including a two-year fellowship from the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, an NEA InterArts award, a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Sculpture, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Sculpture Space, Inc. She is a nominee for the 2010 James and Audrey Foster Prize at the ICA/Boston. Her installations have been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Boston Globe, and featured in a two-page article in Sculpture Magazine. Beth’s work was recently featured on the cover of the Socrates Sculpture Park book, and was also on the cover of artsMEDIA and Art New England.

Here is a video of her recent installation, “Luminous Garden (Aerial).”

For more information about Beth's sculptures, please visit her website at www.bethgalston.com.