why I paint:
Having moved so much as a child, I am convinced place matters. City streets, close interiors, industrial work yards or wildlands all have different affect, and effects on their inhabitants. To bring an expression of another place into an interior space opens the mind to the other place
Places where human works meet wild ones show different ways we fit in the world.
CV & Exhibition History
Elizabeth (Betsy) Kendall
Born Chapel Hill NC 1953
Lives & works in Berkeley CA
Solo Shows
2023 By the Water
Berkeley Yacht Club, Berkeley
2022 Marking Home Ground
Stanislaus State University, Turlock CA
2021– Landscapes
M Lowe & Co Jewelers, Berkeley
2019 Betsy Kendall Landscapes
ShoH Gallery, Berkeley
2019 Wild Here, Local Landscapes
Albany Community Center, Albany CA
2018 Betsy Kendall: Collaborations with the Muse
B Sakata, Sacramento
2014 Betsy Kendall: Landscape/Studio
Stanford Art Spaces
2012 Betsy Kendall: Local Landscapes
Albany Community Center Foyer
2011 Nearby Wild, Landscape
Montclair Gallery, Oakland
2008 Tree Spirit: Betsy Kendall & David Turner
Alta Bates Community Gallery
Group Shows
2024 Exhale!, Group Landscape Show
ShoH Gallery, Berkeley
2024 Animalia, Arts Benicia
Arts Benicia Gallery, Benicia CA 2024
2024 62nd Stockton Art League Juried Exhibition
Haggin Museum, Stockton
2024 I, We, They Juried show
Arts Benicia, Benicia CA
2024 Superfine Art Fair
Fort Mason Center, San Francisco CA
2023 DeYoung Open
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
2023 Unique Perspectives
Ruby Living Design, Mill Valley
2023 Fresh Works, juried Show,
Firehouse Art Center, Pleasanton
2022 SummerScape
SHoH Fine Arts, Berkeley
2022 Red, Juried online Exhibit,
O’Hanlon Center, Mill Valley
2022 Face to Face, National Juried show
ARC Gallery San Francisco
2022 Human Faces & Figures (Online Exhibition)
Las Laguna Art Gallery
2021 SHoH Fine Arts,
Fourth Street Berkeley January
2020 Beyond: Group Landscape Show
ShoH Fine Arts, Berkeley
2020 Bird, Nest, Nature
Jurors Jeffrey De Blois, ICA Boston
Rebecca Lowery, MOCA Los Angeles,
Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek
2019 Three Local Landscape Painters
North Berkeley Investment Partners, Berkeley
2019 Ruby Living Design
2018 Small Works Juried Show
juror Phil Linhares
Richmond Art Center
2018 Bay Area Life, 1st place
juror Emma Acker, Oakland Museum
Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2018 Road Trip
ShoH Fine Arts Gallery, Berkeley CA
2017 Sightings on Land, October
Mythos Fine Art, Berkeley CA
2015 Figures Within and Without
Mythos Fine Art @ Firehouse Gallery North
Berkeley CA
2015–17 Faculty Shows
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
2015 Into the Wild: Celebrating Western Wilderness
Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel, CA
2014 Retold Tales: Collage and Assemblage
Mythos Fine Art @ Firehouse North Gallery
2014 Au Naturel, The Nude in the 21st Century
Clatsop Communtiy College, Astoria, OR
2014 Wilderness 50: Celebrating Western Wilderness
Vallejo Museum
2013 Berkeley Seen, (invitational show)
Firehouse North Gallery, Berkeley
2012 Scapes: (Juried show)
Pacific Art League, Palo Alto
2012 Changing Scene
Valley Art Gallery, Walnut Creek
Featured Artist, October
2012 Artists Honor the Oakland LGBT community
Oakland City Hall (4 artists)
2012 Seeing Solano III: Solano Land Trust
Vacaville Museum
2012 Berkeley Civic Arts Commission Selection
Berkeley Civic Center
2012 Au Naturel, The Nude in the 21st Century
Third place award
Clatsop Community College, Astoria OR
2012 New Places: Four Painters’ California
Firehouse North Gallery, Berkeley
2011 Seeing Solano: Artists view the Solano Land Trust
Vallejo Historical Museum (Invitational)
2011 2D 3D Figurative Works, second place award
DeWitt Cheng juror
San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton
2010 Figures & Forms (2-person show)
Nielsen Arts, Berkeley
2008 Go Figure: Working Together from a Model
The Carl Cherry Center for the Arts, Carmel
2008 Carpe Diem: Landscapes
Canessa Gallery, San Francisco
2007 Partners in Paint: the Tuesday Drawing Group
Addison Windows Gallery, Berkeley
2004 Valona Pleinair Paint Out
Epperson Gallery, Crockett
2004 Rendering & Articulation: A Drawing Exhibit
The Carl Cherry Center of the Arts, Carmel
2004 The American Landscape: Mountains–Metropolis
Alameda Art Center
2000 Group Landscape Show
Sticks Fine Arts, Berkeley
1999 Betsy Kendall & Elizabeth Ennis
Sticks Fine Arts, Berkeley
1998 Betsy Kendall & Carlo Ferretti
Sticks Fine Arts, Berkeley
1998 The Watershed Landscape
Arts Benicia
1998 Alternate Views of Diablo
Diablo Valley College
At Miwok Meadows, China Camp State Park, San Rafael, CA
To see the figure paintings referenced in this video click here and here