Hetty Baiz
Hetty Baiz received a BFA from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia University.
She received a fellowship to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
where she was awarded the Purchase Prize in Drawing. Hetty has had one person
and group shows in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania including Princeton University,
Ward Nasse Gallery in Soho, Anne Reid Gallery, Perkins Center for the Arts, among
others. She has won a number of prizes in national juried competitions, and her
work is represented in private collections across the United States.
Artist Statement:
I work in mixed media and produce both two and three dimensional work. I am currently
exploring a wide range of materials from paint and canvas, to paper, plaster,
fabric and dried organic matter. I’m interested in using a combination of materials
that best express what I want to say, and am not wed to any one medium. My works
generally range in size from 12” to over 96” in any given direction. In my most
recent pieces, I’m exploring death and decay as an integral part of life, of
who we are, of what it means to be human. For me, this is an acknowledgment of
impermanence... that all things devolve or evolve from nothingness. I am also
investigating the interdependence of human beings and nature. Or as Thoreau wrote
in Walden: -- “Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves
and vegetable mold myself?” Finally, I’m interested in the figure as a vehicle
for personal, spiritual and emotional expression.
