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NEWS FROM PLANET BETH!
"Her paintings refer to intemperate myths... they evoke the sacred..intimations of the life force...evoking life itself. (Marty Fugate, The Observer newspaper)
New The Mermaids Return video music by Conrad Praetzel compiled by Chalchuhuitl Productions
Musings, insights, politics,and recommendations http://surdut.blogspot.com/
New frog, chameleon, fish prints and paintings, 12 MERMAIDS, TILES , Table Linens, Ultimate Aloha Shirts, Notecards, Museum shows, Press and mailing list at bottom.
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions and Projects
Big
and Bold Starting in April, Surdut's image Hurricane: Eye of the
Storm appears on a 5 ft tall banner displayed in Tampa.
April 1 - May 31 – Banners will be displayed along Boy Scout and or Kennedy
Boulevards
June 1 - 30 – Banners will be displayed inside WestShore Plaza mall
Various Dates throughout the year – Tampa International Airport will display the
banners inside the main terminal at various times throughout the year
Presented by the Ringling College Library Association's Art Lecture Series Reservations are required, tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
THE ARTIST AND HER STUDIO
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008 – 10:00 AM
RINGLING COLLEGE STUDENT CENTER EXHIBITION HALL
Meet the artist and to tour her studio. Beth Surdut is a designer and a colorist, a writer and a visual storyteller. Her visionary paintings are exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Beth will discuss and display her art, which includes fine art, painting on Chinese silk and textile design. Her tropical linen collection is sold in museums.
Following the presentation, drive to the artist's home and studio.
Free to Library Association members. Reserved parking for the lecture available beside
the Selby Gallery.
Non-members’ fee is $10.
Oct 24~ Nov 17 Myths, Masks, Rites & Rituals at Aurora Colors Gallery Petaluma,CA.
Come see a selection of some of my best new mythologies.
Spirits of the Millstone
Beth Surdut
Oct 20th, the Siesta Key Catwalk raised money and
participants walked away with my Cats for the Mind tee
Read the story of Mr. Stinky & the Wild Princess
Currently working on site creating murals of a bamboo forest in a courtyard surrounding a Zen garden.
Ongoing tales of dumping a whole can of lavender paint on my head and chased by angry wasps may be found on my blog
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June 2007--Speaking of life and
love, Beth created a colorful, joyous chuppah 
Jewish wedding canopy
May 2007 Senses
Magazine~
feature profile of Beth
and her work in the Mind, Body, Spirit issue
Experience a sense of Beth's bliss at two Sarasota exhibitions in May ~ June
Senses Gallery, Adams Lane in Towles Court, Sarasota, Florida
New Mythology: Fables, Mysteries, and Circe's Dating Pool
Bliss Gallery, Ocean Blvd, Siesta Key, Florida
Mermaids, Madmen and Dragon Scales
Pomegranate Stain (detail) ©Beth Surdut 2006 Exuberant
©Beth Surdut 2006
Angels,Clowns,Loggerheads &Butterflies swim amidst ambient walls--private commissioned paintings with ambient walls
The Aquarium ©Beth Surdut 2007
To Russia with love: The official mayoral delegation from Vladimir returned home in January with
Come Walk With Me ©Beth Surdut 2007
"You have created this gift from your heart, and I am honored to bring a piece of your heart back to Vladimir for our people to see," said Yuri Fedorov, head of the Vladimir Department of International Relations and Tourism.
Created for Sarasota Sister Cities Association as a gift from Sarasota, Florida to Vladimir, Russia
A visionary invitation to an egalitarian world that respects and embraces all cultures.
Support WSLR-- home grown radio
with a global perspective--
Give the station $200 or more during the March fundraiser
and receive a luscious signed Beth Surdut print. Click here.
Red Tide and Dragon Scales is on display at the Sarasota Federal Building as part of the Art in Public Places program
Talk to me about Dream Vessels, the international creative visualization project, if you want to be a sponsor or participant in particularly, but never limited to, San Francisco, Miami, NYC, Paris, London and Barcelona.
Small Revelations and Large Truths: Surdut solos at Winter Park Public Library March 7- April 8, 2007
The Design Empress strikes again--January 2007 Sarasota Homes & Lifestyles magazine features a color-luscious place setting from the Surdut Tropical Linen Collection. Three designs are available at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Stay tuned for a MEET THE ARTIST date.
January 9, 2007 at Surface Design Guild of Sarasota, Beth presented Dancing with the Mirthful Muse a lively and inspirational discussion on fostering creativity.
July/Aug 2006 Sarasota
Magazine,
that chic and savvy tome of taste, features a fab article and pictures of Planet
Beth. Linens featured .
If you missed the Creators and Collectors Tour of seven artists homes and studios chosen by the Fine Arts Society Society of Sarasota, please contact me for your own tour of my studio. Small groups are welcome.We had a fabulous time with paintings sold to collectors in Rhode Island, Chicago, and Canada.
Surdut Tropical Table Linen Collection which debuted at Bloomingdale's, is available at the Ringling Museum, featured in The Boston Globe's Life At Home, includes napkins, placemats printed and traced in gold on 100% cotton celebrate the romance of the tropics.
Bamboo Forest placemats and napkins, were originally commissioned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after record breaking sales of the Surdut Tropical Table Linen Collection in conjunction with the spectacular Gauguin Tahiti blockbuster exhibition.
Birds of Paradise grow on a lush red or bold blue ground ; orange Heliconia on elegant black debuted in Bloomingdale's in Manhattan and Boca Raton in 2004.
Bamboo Forest
Let's Go Hawaiian January 31-June 20, 2004: Beth designed this hot Hawaiian shirt show at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts with a jungle, waterfall, volcano and beaches featuring a vintage Aloha shirt collection along with the current generation of aloha wear, including this artist's one-of-a-kind hand painted silk men's shirts. Great media coverage in The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Lowell Sun, Harvard Hillside and more.
The Ultimate Aloha Shirt™ by Beth Surdut is pure silk Visit the body art page for more
Hand painted, custom designed, custom sewn, custom fit
Ultimate Aloha Shirts™ © Beth Surdut
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NOTECARDS: Sets of 12 cards in three mixed images are now available for $28.00 a set: Heliconia, Jungle Walk, and Macaws and Mangoes. Send an email for payment instructions.
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