About

Making use of well-worn skateboards-from their scuffed and shredded decks to the hardware that supports them-Betty Stafford’s art digs down through layers of rough use to find resilience, beauty and joy. The artist works her material heavily, transforming scarred boards into layered and colorful constructions that reveal unexpected brilliance under the surface.

With planes and features recalling Oceanic as well as Pop art, Stafford’s sculptures can be at once anthropomorphic and architectonic, while others offer a new take on the landscape tradition. Her most recent work also confronts the challenges of mobile making, finding balance and unity in disparate objects with her signature style.

Betty Stafford holds a BFA from the University of Texas, Austin. She currently lives and works in Garrison, New York.

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