TeMPORAL REFLECTIONS

Exhibition Dates: September 20th - november 1, 2025

ATLANTA, GA – Sandler Hudson Gallery is pleased to announce, primary, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Georgia-based artist, Betsy Cain. Each early spring, Cain devotes a series of works to a renewed celebration of life. Large oil paint drawings on Yupo paper evoke the essential and basic first stages of growth, forms that emerge saturated with color, capturing the flush of new beginnings. Much of this inspiration comes from observing the vast salt marsh near the artist’s home as it transforms into lush green each year. Shown in tandem are works that explore the absence of color through the use of deep black, specifically, Black 3.0, one of the blackest pigments available. The work serves as a visual counterbalance, aiming to distill form to its most essential state. In primary, form appears to be just coming into its visual life, seeking clarity through reduction.

 Betsy Cain has maintained an independent studio for over 40 years in Savannah, Georgia, and her discipline includes paintings, cut-outs, mixed media works on paper and photography. In her work, she explores the dissolving line between abstraction and the figurative...internal and external landscapes with imagery infused from the visually powerful and textural “low country,” and the language of the body.

Earning her MFA (and BFA) from The University of Alabama, with associated studies at Auburn University and Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Cain has been engaged in the Savannah arts community for decades, co-founding and participating in several collaborative and performative artist groups, curating exhibitions, and sponsoring art forums and lecture series. Among her many awards are The Macon Museum’s Bowen Award 2018 for Artistic Excellence; Georgia Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (GaNMWA), Governor’s Award; and Southern Expressions Regional Purchase Award, High Museum of Art.

Betsy’s most recent exhibitions include both solo and group shows at Laney Contemporary and at the Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA, and her work is included in the corporate collections of Google, The Coca-Cola Company, King and Spalding, Alston Bird, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Chemical Bank, NYC as well as the Macon Museum of Arts & Sciences, Telfair Museum, High Museum of Art, and Roswell Museum & Art Center, just to name a few.