Beatrice Modisett: Into a Kind of Quietness is on view May 18–June 16, 2024 at Analog Diary, 1154 North Avenue, Beacon, NY. Gallery hours are Friday–Sunday 12–6pm and by appointment. An opening reception for the artist will take place May 18 from 4–6pm.

Analog Diary is pleased to announce Into a Kind of Quietness, an exhibition of recent works by Beatrice Modisett. Modisett's practice is guided by an abiding interest in the inherent tension, space, and overlap between generative and destructive forces; through this lens, Modisett explores themes relating to place, memory, systems, and material.

Beatrice Modisett's process is driven by experience and exposure — specifically amid nature, on her heavily wooded, off-the-grid property in Summit, NY, where she spends periods of time sleeping outside, observing, exploring, and otherwise entangling herself with the place while gathering materials that ultimately comprise her work. Modisett's engagement with her chosen media directly reflects and sustains the overarching concerns through which she approaches art making: that is, that natural forces of destruction — e.g. fire, wind, and water — can simultaneously be means of creation.

For further information, please reach Analog Diary at info@analogdiary.art.

I am happy to have contributed piece of writing to accompany Flat Rate Contemporary's exhibition FRC:11. You can read the piece Home, Body here.

I am very happy to have had a review on my work "Feeding Sugar to the Stump" published in the Boston Art Review.

You can read the full write up here.

I was thrilled to be in conversation with Kaveri Raina and Lydia Gordon on the occasion of my solo show "Feeding Sugar to the Stump" at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. You can watch the recorded conversation on YouTube.

Painters Beatrice Modisett and Kaveri Raina both investigate the potential of material to convey meaning, the crevices between representation and abstraction and that which exists in the in-between. In this casual conversation they will discuss the role of drawing in their practices, the embrace of failure as a fruitful and generous space and the importance of work that happens outside the walls of the studio.

Moderated by Lydia Gordon, Associate Curator for Exhibitions and Research at the Peabody Essex Museum and recent Montserrat Faculty.

In support of Beatrice’s solo exhibition, Feeding Sugar to the Stump.

I am thrilled to be a Winter Workspace Fellow at Wave Hill in the Bronx from February 18th - March 29th.

You can come visit me in my studio on March 28th from 12 - 3:30pm.

My solo exhibition Scorched Earth will be on view at the Maier Museum of Art in Lynchburg, VA from January 31st - April 11th, 2020.

Installation views of the show can be seen here.

I am happy to be included on a list of 11 artists that are redefining abstract painting.

You can find the Artsy editorial here.