Bethany Mabee
Bethany Mabee is a midwest artist and textile designer. Bethany uses her time in the studio to explore symbolism through process, color and pattern. Each step of her process continually refuels a future process, becoming a symbol of our continuous and cyclical expansion.
Materials used throughout her painting practice become components later used for collage work while completed paintings become the starting point for pattern creation. With a love for seeking cycles + patterns within herself and the world around her, these studio processes have become a tangible extension of this personal practice.
Art + Textiles
Fabric + Wallpaper
Bold fabrics + wallpapers designed for residential and commercial interiors.
This allows her paintings to transition from a place of self-expression to the more universal expression of design.
While painting Bethany explores the contrast between feminine fluid markings against bold masculine lines. You’ll find evidence of this in her patterns which appear geometric from afar, but leave painterly layers beneath.
Bethany’s patterns are digitally printed using a sustainable pigment printing process that uses less energy and produces zero water waste.
Bethany’s patterns are created from small sections of her large-scale paintings.
Artwork
Exploring symbolism through process, color + pattern
Each step of my process continually refuels a future process, becoming a symbol of our continuous and cyclical expansion
Works on Paper provide a warm up exercise for larger scale paintings while interacting with unexpected reactions of color and material.
Works on Canvas explore contrast with unintentional reactions of color and water, followed by intentional applications of layers and shapes.
Remaining Fragments of painted canvas strips, cut up works on paper and fabric remnants become components for Collage Work
