Beth Edwards

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Beth Edwards (Elizabeth I. Edwards; born 1960) is an American painter.

Beth Edwards was born in Decatur, Alabama, the daughter of painter and art professor Larry Edwards.^[1] After a childhood spent ostensibly in Boone, North Carolina, Edwards attended the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she earned a BFA in 1982. She then entered the graduate painting program at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She was awarded an MFA degree in 1987. She taught art at the University of Dayton in Ohio from 1987 through 1999. SInce 2000, Edwards has been teaching painting at the University of Memphis in Tennessee where she is currently an associate professor.

A practicing oil painter since the age of sixteen, Edwards has produced a varied body of work that includes still life, figure, and expressionistic subjects. Her current work presents fabricated characters based on found vintage toys interacting with invented interior and exterior spaces. Brightly colored faces appear in the foregrounds of views of mid-century modern homes and living spaces. Realistic depictions of modernist painting and sculpture are also included in the imagined locations. Color and light combine in the paintings to convey what Edwards has described as "an environment that exudes joy."

Instead of viewing representations (what Baudrillard calls "simulacra") as perversions or pretenses of reality, Edwards welcomes all images as raw materials that feed her imagination.==References==