Waters Art Exhibition

Short Biography and Statement

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Becky Guttin was born and raised in Mexico City. She is an internationally exhibited artist who has been a guest lecturer worldwide and has received seven art prizes. Guttin has participated in seventeen International Art Symposia and fifteen Art Biennales. Has been featured in thirty-seven solo exhibitions. She has worked in numerous countries. Forty-nine of her pieces belong to permanent collections in museums and private and public spaces, such as universities, consulates, sculpture parks, cultural centers, hospitals, and schools. She worked as a volunteer at Scripps Hospital Encinitas for five years, where she led art therapy workshops. Her four grandparents were born abroad, in Poland, Latvia and Belgium. Her parents were both Mexican, so were her kids and herself. She grew up multiculturally. Her art is influenced because of this mix of cultures. There are several things that are similar in traditions or values and at the same time many oppositions and differences. Becky Guttin has an independent studio where she continues to create sculpture, drawings, mixed media pieces, photography, calligraphy, installations and video. She lives and works in San Diego STATEMENT My purpose is to use, recover and recycle waste material. In my works I underline the contrast between materials, each of which has its own cultural and spiritual content. This contrast, as well as the elements which conform it and what they symbolize, are very significant to my work. I show the truth of each material, they are natural. Neither their color nor the traces left by time on them are covered up. They each maintain their own presence. Mi arte trata con el pensamiento y media entre el mundo interior y el exterior.