Wax on wood. 11 1/2″x 9 1/4″. Collection of the artist.
.0047 (pink I Ching) 1987
recordkeeping
.0042 (newspaper and lint) 2006
Newspaper, lint. 5″x 12″ diameter. Collection of Susan Yashar, Washington, D.C.
Exhibited at Hillyer Art and Artists, Washington, D.C. , 2011.
.0041 Paris Dada 1987
Mixed media. 8″x 7″x 2″. Collection of the artist.
.0040 3 Sweaters 2018
Hand sewn and woven mixed fabrics. 23″x 17″x 3″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited in “WTF Gurlz,” Artists and Makers, Rockville, MD, 2019.
.0032 Paintings and Drawings 1976-1978 1978
Paper pulp and ashes of drawings, prints, and paintings done while in residence at Tulane University. 8″x6″x5”. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.
Exhibited at the Washington Project for the Arts, 1984.
.0031 Clothes 1979
Clothes, acrylic medium. 16″x 8″diameter. Collection of the Newcomb Art Museum, Tulane University.
Exhibited at Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1984. Exhibited in “Recontextualizing the Found,” curated by Thalia Vrachopoulos and Bill Pangburn, Shiva Gallery, John Jay College, NYC, 2014.
Exhibited in “Metamorphosis: Highlights from the Permanent Collection,” curated by Maurita Poole and Laura Blereau, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA , 2022
This is a very early work further addressing the concept of record-keeping, journaling with materials, autobiography, Compression, distillation of experience, hinting at these by exposing interior layers.
The piece is composed of some of the clothes my mother made or purchased for me prior to my year as a student in Italy, that I wore there, and that returned with me. They retain something of my experience there. They are materially the same but different. Transformed -as I was- during that period of time.
.0026 (half-sphere of tip envelopes) 2006
Tip envelopes. 4 1/2″ x 10″ diameter. Collection of the artist.
.0024 Advent 1985
Wax on wood. 13 1/2″x 15 7/8″. Collection of the artist.
Exhibited at Anton Gallery, Washington, D.C.
.0001 Solemn Vow 2015
Wool, mixed fabric backing, 98″x 54″. Collection of the Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign. Exhibited in “GEOMETRIX: Line, Form, Subversion,” curated by Andrea Pollan, Curator’s Office, Washington, D.C., 2016. Exhibited in “Outliers: Kurt Godwin and Betsy Packard,” American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, 2014.
Betsy Packard Art Archive 