<p style="text-align: center;"><b>May 12 – July 22, 2006</b></p>
<b>Betsy Casañas’ </b>first retrospective exhibition since graduating from Moore College of Art and Design.  As such it provided an opportunity to view this artist’s artistic style trajectory.  It is particularly rewarding to exhibit this community grown artist, a strong Puerto Rican and Latina woman, who has overcome so many obstacles to reach her artistic goals.  An intense focus on the self-portrait allows Casañas to study the nuances of light and color as well as providing her with ample subjectivity and the space to reflect her personal journey as a woman, artist, and mother. At the same time, a newer strand of abstractionism allows her to play with shape, contour, and line in a much freer and playful manner that borders on abstract expressionism. A first catalogue publication for Betsy Casañas is being developed.  She worked in residence with participants of the Lighthouse after school program.

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