About Beth Swartz

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    Beth Swartz (b. 1936)

    Beth Ames Swartz (born February 5, 1936) is an American painter and visual artist.

    Primarily working in the idioms of abstraction and semi-abstraction, her paintings and mixed-media works are commonly informed by philosophical and spiritual concepts shared by people of different cultural world views, and incorporate both symbols and words in the vocabulary of their visual language.

    Her art practice has been guided by aesthetic philosophies including Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and inspired by various religious and philosophical systems including Native American Healing practices, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christianity i...

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