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, metal mesh, trees, leaves, 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 and works in Somerville, MA. She received a Master's degree in environmental art from MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1981, where she was also a fellow for five years. Her installations have been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, ME; Rose Art Museum, MA; Lehman College Gallery of Art, NYC; Yeshiva University Museum, NYC; Currier Gallery of Art, NH; MIT Museum; Massachusetts College of Art; Nelson Atkins Museum, MO. Major works include: "Thunderbird Bridge", a vehicular bridge for an eight lane freeway in Phoenix, AZ; "Tree/House", an outdoor architectural sculpture at Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC; and "Aviary", a collaborative video/sculpture/dance performance at MIT's Media Lab.
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. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Boston Globe, Art New England, featured in a two-page article in Sculpture Magazine, and was on the cover of artsMEDIA.
She recently created luminous environments using colored LEDs embedded in translucent forms cast from seedpods for the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA and Wave Hill, Bronx, NYC. She also installed a “forest” of cast resin rose stems at the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. She is currently working on a public art project in Arizona: "Colorwalk", a sculpture of colored glass for an eighty-foot-long pedestrian walkway at the new Mesa Arts Center, which will be completed in the fall of 2005.
For more information about Beth's sculptures, please visit her website at www.bethgalston.com.
