About The Artist
About The Artist
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Reese Betts is a new media artist, filmmaker, and researcher from Kansas City, Missouri who utilizes archival imagery and experimental fibrous techniques rooted within the history of domestic craft. Her artworks combine sculpture, projection mapping, and experimental filmmaking to prompt ethical questions relating to social history, personal identity, and environmentalism. She has exhibited her work at galleries and events in Buffalo, NY; Columbia, MO; St. Charles, MO; St. Louis, MO; Lawrence, KS; Alys Beach, FL; and Jyväskylä, Finland. Betts received a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Storytelling at the University of Missouri. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Artist Statement
Artist Statement
I utilize a combination of digital media, sculpture, fibers, and installation to contemplate the dilemma of “human nature” in a late capitalist society. By recycling discarded domestic items, my work intends to highlight the influence of commercialism upon the formation of identity and personal worldview. Weaving these materials into one another prompts us to consider the overlooked contexts of the packaging, clothing, and tech products that influence the ways we find meaning within ourselves. I investigate the manners in which wasteful systems and the constant need for ownership of something “new” lead to an unacknowledged (yet accepted) disconnect from the self.
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