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Bettina Made New York Feel Like a Secret
The artist toiled in her room at the Chelsea Hotel for decades, making photographs and sculptures she showed to almost no one.
Rendered in a soft palette of browns and yellows, they’re reminiscent of the establishing montages of ’70s and ’80s movies, where crowds of commuters navigate traffic and public space. Alex Fleming, who co-owns Ulrik with Anya Komar, says Bettina was “surrounded by these people and still never in dialogue with or a part of these scenes that were threaded through the space that she lived in for 50 years.” Her isolation allowed her to live and produce work on her own terms; an acquaintance remembered Bettina telling her, “I’m eating an onion, and a slice of bread, and it tastes good because I’m hungry.”
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