Samsøn is pleased to present a familial group exhibition Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George from December 10 – January 29, 2011. Betty Woodman (b. 1930) & George Woodman (b. 1932) started their lives in and near Boston yet now work in between New York and Italy. Over the years, they’ve worked together, and have always produced separately. They, with their children, have pushed art & culture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of her sculpture in 2006 and 40 years of his painting were show... Read more

Samsøn is pleased to present a familial group exhibition Betty, Charlie, Francesca & George from December 10 – January 29, 2011.

Betty Woodman (b. 1930) & George Woodman (b. 1932) started their lives in and near Boston yet now work in between New York and Italy. Over the years, they’ve worked together, and have always produced separately. They, with their children, have pushed art & culture. The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of her sculpture in 2006 and 40 years of his painting were shown at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2007. Their work is in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art (NY, NY), the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY, NY) and Yale University (New Haven, CT). Her work is in the collection of The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA) and the International Ceramic Museum (Faenza, Italy). His work is also in the collection of the Guggenheim Museum (NY, NY) and the Brooklyn Museum (NY, NY).

Charlie Woodman’s (b. 1955) Heaven is a single screen video produced in part at the Experimental Television Center; ‘…it explores interaction between analog motion and digital signal. This work is a meditative poem, a point of departure for contemplation, encompassing both a mysterious perspective, and a very simple point of view.’ He attended graduate school at the University of Oklahoma. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art (NY, NY), the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference (Vancouver, Canada), the San Francisco Cinematheque and the Block Museum of Art (Chicago, IL). Charles Woodman is a founding member of the video performance group viDEO sAVant.

Francesca Woodman’s (b. 1958, d. 1981) 1st photograph at home in Boulder, CO, Self-portrait at Thirteen, presaged the highly influential photographic works produced while a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (1975-1978) then Rome, NYC and the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. She had a major posthumous retrospective at the Fondation Cartier (Paris, France), which traveled to Kunsthal (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon, Portugal), The Photographers’ Gallery (London, UK) and L’Hospitalet, in Barcelona among other places. Francesca Woodman will have a large retrospective at SF MoMA in 2011, travelling to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in 2012.