Online Residency 2021

 

Biography

In the 1980’s I exhibited work in New York City, on the Lower East Side.

In the 1990’s I attended Yaddo and Ragdale residencies, won a state Fellowship (Wyoming) and exhibited work around the country in solo and group gallery exhibits.

From the 2000’s to the present, I focused on my career as the exhibit designer at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

In 2017, I began a studio art practice again, and have again been exhibiting work around the country.

Artist statement

Bettina Cousineau creates mixed media collages using a combination of paper and hand drawn elements.

She says: “I am a diarist. The objects I draw are in the process of shifting. The shapes are soft and mutable. Lines go off in all directions, and the border between object and space is unclear. I often wonder: am I drawing a memory that is forming or dissolving?  Even the drawings themselves are impermanent. The paper is designed to disintegrate. In the end, the drawings, like my memory of the experience, will become something else altogether.”

Links

Website: Bdcousineau.com