13FOREST Gallery - Beth Dacey

beth dacey

Each painting begins with a vintage, black and white photograph that captures an incidental moment in time. The shadows, poses, and fragments, from an unknowable past, feel compelling to me; and while I paint from someone else's gaze, the images pass through me and become mine. As each piece evolves from my own choice of color, stroke, perspective, and composition, I create a personal context and meaning, While I am interested in the nonverbal aspect of memory, in a personal way, I am intrigued by the collectiveness of it. I want my paintings to tap into a longing for familiarity as they tell stories that connect uniquely.

Beth Dacey has studied painting at the museums schools at the DeCordova, in Lincoln, MA and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She has a BA and MA from Boston College and, for a number of years, taught writing and literature there. Beth lives in Boston, Massachusetts.