Bettina Sellmann


Bettina Sellmann is a German artist.
From 1992 to 1997 Sellmann studied and graduated as Meisterschülerin at Städelschule Frankfurt. In 1999 she was awarded a DAAD grant for New York City, where she lived and worked until 2009. She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Sellmann also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, NYC.
In her paintings Sellmann uses a watercolor-on-canvas techniqueDarei Hanna / Chloe Zaug, Figuratively Seeing, Editors Darei Hanna and Chloe Zaug, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2009, pp. 58-61 in "candy colored acrylic tones " and “multi-layers of translucent pigments in pale pinks, powder blues, and acidic yellows and greens“.
Works of her have been described as “see-through versions of Old Master paintings... gone translucent and ethereal“, "particular reverie-inducers“, exploring “the other side of pink“.
Recent paintings deal with kidult and fairy tale "romanticism“ as well as kawaii imagery and influences of Far Eastern spirituality.
At Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin in 2011 she performed a space clearing, which could be considered either an empty room or "a purely transcendent exhibition“.
She has works in private and public collections, such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, which holds her drawing "The Saints in This World Are Watching" . 7

Awards

- Grant
Skowhegan Summer Residency Program

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions