Beth Galston

Environmental sculpture

studio: 20 Vernon Street, Studio #92
email: bethg@bethgalston.com
web: www.bethgalston.com

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biography

Beth Galston is a sculptor who creates immersive light environments for interior and exterior spaces. Her site-specific installations use innovative materials and are often based on the transformative processes of nature.

Beth 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. It was at MIT that she began to work with light. Her installations have been exhibited nationally, including Cynthia-Reeves Gallery, NYC; Wave Hill, NYC; Yeshiva University Museum, NYC; Lehman College Gallery of Art, NYC; McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, ME; Currier Gallery of Art, NH; Brattleboro Museum, VT; Nelson Atkins Museum, MO; DeCordova Museum, MA; Rose Art Museum, MA; Pittsfield Museum, MA; Provincetown Art Museum; MIT Museum, MA; and Jamestown Art Center, RI.

Major public works include: “Sound Wave,” a computer-controlled light sculpture for Music City Center in Nashville, TN; “Serpentine Fence,” a sculptural fence made of stainless steel, purple metal mesh, and lights in Jamaica Plain, MA; “Color Walk,” colored glass railings for two eighty-foot-long pedestrian walkways 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.

Galston recently received a 2013 Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Sculpture/Installation. She is currently working on a “Prairie Grass,” a public art project in San Antonio, TX, which will be installed in early 2014. In the studio, she is exploring a new computer-controlled light piece called “Fireflies.”

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