Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman
(1930 - 2018)
Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman was active/lived in New York, Colorado / Italy. Betty Woodman is known for cylindrical vase ceramic sculptures, installations.
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Biography Betty (Elizabeth) Abrahams Woodman
"Betty Woodman, Who Spun Pottery Into Multimedia Art, Dies at 87," by Richard Sandomir, January 5. 2018, Obituary, The New York Times
Betty Woodman, a sculptor who took an audacious turn when she began to transform traditional pottery, her usual medium, into innovative multimedia art, moving her work from kitchen cupboard shelves to museum walls, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. She was 87.
Her son, Charles, said the cause was pneumonia.
Ms. Woodman’s evolution from artisan to fine artist culminated in a retrospective in 2006 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, its first for a living female artist.
“I am coming out of left field,” she told The New York Times when the exhibition opened. “They d
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