Gallery Artists

Betsyann Duval

Betsyann Duval is an artist who works in a variety of media including: performance, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and installation. In her art, she explores the tipping point where representation and abstract intersect, where balance slips, and where paradox, incongruity, and contradiction prevail.

She has shown in national and international solo and group exhibitions including: Studio for Color Etching, Barga, Italy; Broome Street Gallery, NY; and the Second Street Gallery, NY. Lisa Dennison, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum awarded her painting "Moona" first prize in the Cambridge Art Association's National Prize Show 2001. Other prestigious jurors have selected Duval's work for prizes in this National Prize Show from 1999 through 2002.

Duval has studied fine art, performance art, and printmaking at colleges and programs including: the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of Michigan, the Camnitzer Print Program in Valdattavo (Lucca,) Italy, and the Fine Arts Work Center,Provincetown, Massachusetts.

In 1995 she sold her international advertising, marketing, and public relations agency, Duval & Partners, Inc., to focus on an art career. She lives in Nantucket and Acton, Massachusetts, with her husband, the poet Robert J. Clawson.