Betsy Podlach

Hug #2

Oil, egg tempera on linen

"I believe that nature, our bodies, our spirits, and our intellect matter, regardless of gender or selection of gender. I began as an artist reflective of the double standard that has existed about women's and men's bodies in terms of eros, possession, sexuality, and mores, as well as in a nation that imagined the body as less spiritual than the mind, or something immoral or violative in some way of propriety and decency."

— Betsy Podlach

About the artist

Betsy Podlach

I wanted to be a painter since I was in the fourth grade, though nobody in my family was involved in art. I have lived off the sale of my work for most of the prior 3 decades. I seek to present an emotional, physical, erotic, spiritual and intellectual image, metaphorically reflective of our contemporary world, mainly of women and men, usually nude, painting as a woman who is physically, emotionally, and intellectually involved in that process and in life.