Bio

Bethany Rusen graduated with a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 2003 and earned her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in 2010. She has completed residencies at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, Texas, The University of Delaware and Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia. In addition to her current studio practice focusing on mixed media sculpture, she maintains Stanley Chester & Albert Ceramics, a line of functional pottery for the home. She is also the founder and director of Black Hound Clay Studio, a community space for ceramic artists with locations in West and South Philadelphia.

STATEMENT

My work addresses boundaries; the boundaries of the physical body and the boundaries of domestic and social space. I am interested in the experience of living in and effecting a space, whether that space be your own body, a personal dwelling, or a civic space as large and as interconnected as a city. I seek to understand and explore what goes on in the liminal boundary space between two entities, what content and energies pass between them, and how they leave their mark on each other.