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"Two Spheres in a Boat"
"Two Spheres in a Boat"
"At Rivers Edge" 2008
"At Rivers Edge" 2008
"Concurrence"
"Concurrence"
"Disobedient Currents"
"Disobedient Currents"
"Inviolate Portal"
"Inviolate Portal"
"Inviolate Portal" detail
"Inviolate Portal" detail
"Response to Old Devotions"
"Response to Old Devotions"
"Undercurrent"
"Undercurrent"
"Inner Response" Detail
"Inner Response" Detail
"Inner Response"
"Inner Response"
"Ash Bowl with 3 Eggs"
"Ash Bowl with 3 Eggs"
"Containing Desire"
"Containing Desire"
 
  Betty Scarpino
 

Public Collections:
Arkansas Arts Center       
Arizona State University Art Museum
Contemporary Museum of Art, Hawaii
Detroit Institute of Arts
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Indiana
Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University
Indiana State Museum
Los Angeles County Art Museum
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Mint Museum of Craft + Design
Mobile Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art and Design
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
Wood Turning Center
Yale University Art Museum


My work is fluid, full of life and movement.  Much of it is figurative and has to do with relationships.  I love the richness of wood-it allows for infinite expression of ideas.

Artists create glorious objects when they incorporate their life experiences into a personal vocabulary, expressive of their own particular, splendid being.  What I make is a mirror of who I am, so when I speak for myself, the message rings true and sincere.

As I cut, carve, sand, and texture, I am living my life.  It is a way of uncovering what lies beneath the surface, as influenced by me.  The process of making things is of primary importance, and it is what moves my life along and transforms me as I live and work as an artist, discovering much about myself.