BETHANN MORAN-HANDZLIK
VIEWING ROOM
Combining joyous brushwork and careful observation, the seasoned Wisconsin painter Bethann Moran-Handzlik generates works that are at once accurate and poetic. The artist takes canvases into the landscape to paint from direct observation, while also engaging her imagination and memory. The paintings are accomplished in all seasons, and the artist is equally invigorated painting outside in cold winter landscapes, spring woodlands, sunlit gardens, or interior still lives.
Bethann Moran-Handzlik holds a MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a BA from St. Norbert College. After a career teaching at universities, she recently returned to painting full time. She has received numerous fellowships, grants, and residencies in recognition of her practice. Her work has been held in both public and private collections and exhibited across the United States.
“When I paint, I stand ready, with my heart racing, trying to see, with vision, the experience before me. Sometimes it is really hard, but often enough, language leaves me for a while, and it is transportive.”
- Bethann Moran-Handzlik
GIFT (NAMED FOR THE CZESLAW MILOSZ POEM)
Oil on Linen
10 x 8” (Image)
11 x 9” (Framed)
“I’m striving to paint enduring images that are both personal and simultaneously tap into the universal visual, tactile language of paint.”
- Bethann Moran-Handzlik
TOM UTTECH’S WHALE BONE UNDER THE APPLE TREE
Oil on Linen
14 x 16” (Image)
15 x 7” (Framed)
This effort is strongest when my effort moves outside of verbal language, and is instead felt, intuited, and recognized as familiar and, oddly enough, also surprising.”
- Bethann Moran-Handzlik
OCTOBER DAHLIAS
Oil on Linen
30 x 30 (Image)
37 x 37” (Framed)
“The painting, the subject, and I are all conditioned to the same effects of cold, changing light, unexpected events…a gust of wind, a bird’s movement, animal sounds. This is why I paint from observation and memory, because I desire a relationship with the subject.”
- Bethann Moran-Handzlik
LET’S GO ON A PICNIC AND SIT IN THE GRASS
Oil on Linen,
12 x 12” (Image)
13 x 13” (Framed)
“The paintings serve as invitations and as memories ...to come sit low on the earth and take in the sensual beauty with someone you love being around.”
- Bethann Moran-Handzlik