Beth Baylin and Kay King

Artist Bios

BETH BAYLIN

Born and raised in Portland Oregon, received her BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute. After moving to the East Coast, she began to explore photography as an MFA student at the University of North Carolina. While transitioning primarily to that medium, she discovered that taking pictures with an iPad allowed her more flexibility than traditional cameras. She prefers the large frame and ease of operation that it provides. “I was lost once photography went digital,” she says. “The iPad opened things up for me as I was daunted by the new technology." A longtime resident of Brooklyn, she taught art at the Packer Collegiate Institute. She also has an MSW and practiced as a social worker in Brooklyn. The artist has exhibited at Catskill Art Space (CAS) in Livingston Manor and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) in Narrowsburg. She has work in numerous private collections. After spending many summers in North Branch, New York, she now lives there full-time. Beth Baylin’s photographs are a combustion of color, reflection and texture that enthrall. “Having started out as a painter I think of my photographs more as painterly images. I search for intriguing juxtapositions and abstract relationships rather than literal depictions of what I see. I don’t arrange content consciously but prefer to discover interrelationships among random “still lifes” that have settled on my kitchen table. In making incremental shifts of position and perspective with my iPad, worlds open up. Microcosms emerge that seem to transcend the objects in front of me. The less I immediately grasp what I am looking at, the more intrigued I am.” The artist is especially drawn to the angled light of late afternoon, and is “enchanted by fleeting moments of sunlight on objects. Subject matter is drawn from what surrounds me, flowers from our summer garden, fruit, vegetables, and kitchen utensils. The Brooklyn Botanic Gardens have been another source of inspiration. Photography allows me to be present in the moment. To “capture” an image when the elements come together is an intoxicating and thrilling experience.

KAY KING sees the world as shapes; light and dark, bright and dull, large and small. “My job as a painter is to capture the energy of my surroundings and to push through the problems inherent to the craft of painting. I manipulate pieces of color to make the transition from the actual world that surrounds us all to the world I create on canvas.” The artist earned a degree in art education from Kutztown State College and continued her graduate studies at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Trenton State College in New Jersey, Maryland Institute, the Institute at San Miguel de Allende in Mexico and Florence Academy of Art in Florence Italy. She has participated in juried exhibitions in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and had several solo and group exhibitions throughout those states and in Maine. We welcome Kay King back to the Lodge Gallery where she has exhibited with us for over 17 years. Kay recreates a field of grass in First Daffodils with painterly layers of bouncing light anddark greens. We are drawn to observe the white flowers as they rise up in attention. We take a journey with the artist, around her favorite landscapes, relishing the joy of Springtime. Wherever Kay King travels, around her Pennsylvania Bucks County home, or in Italy or in France, she carries her paint brush and translates what delights her in her own language of art.