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Beth Surdut, Design Empress!                      NEWS FROM  PLANET BETH!

"Her paintings refer to intemperate myths... they evoke the sacred..intimations of the life force...evoking life itself. (Marty Fugate, The Observer newspaper)

     The Mermaids Return video music by Conrad Praetzel compiled by Chalchuhuitl Productions

     Musings, insights, politics,and recommendations, & the adventures of Gator Girl  http://surdut.blogspot.com/

See sidebar for links to New frog, chameleon, fish prints and paintings, MERMAIDS, TILES , Table Linens,

Scroll down this page for event news, Ultimate Aloha Shirts, Notecards, Murals and more

Contact  info@bethsurdut.com                                                                                            

                                                                                         Current and Upcoming Exhibitions and Projects

Tampa International Airport displays original paintings by Beth Surdut until December 1, 2008

             Location: Landside Terminal, Level 3                              TampaAirportCard2.jpg (164712 bytes)

Hurricane.jpg (49790 bytes)Big and Bold  Starting in April, Surdut's image Hurricane: Eye of the Storm appears on a 5 ft tall banner displayed in Tampa.

Various Dates throughout the year – Tampa International Airport will display the banners inside the main terminal at various times throughout the year

                                                                              

Presented by the Ringling College Library Association's Art Lecture Series 

THE ARTIST AND HER STUDIO
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2008 – 10:00 AM
RINGLING COLLEGE STUDENT CENTER EXHIBITION HALL

Meet the artist and to tour her studio. Beth Surdut is a designer and a colorist, a writer and a visual storyteller. Her visionary paintings are exhibited in museums and galleries internationally. Beth will discuss and display her art, which includes fine art, painting on Chinese silk and textile design. Her tropical linen collection is sold in museums.

                  Oct 24~ Nov 17   Myths, Masks, Rites & Rituals at Aurora Colors Gallery  Petaluma,CA.

                                             Come see a selection of some of my best new mythologies.

              Spirits of the Millstone    Spirits of the Millstone by Beth Surdut       Beth Surdut

      Oct 20th, the Siesta Key Catwalk raised money and

participants walked away with my Cats for the Mind tee

      Cats for the Mind by  Beth Surdut 2007                                                                                                                                                                                            Read the story of Mr. Stinky & the Wild Princess

                    Currently working on site creating murals of a bamboo forest in a courtyard surrounding a Zen garden.

                    Ongoing tales of dumping a whole can of lavender paint on my head and chased by angry wasps may be found on my blog

   Tranquility.Mural by Beth Surdut 2007Tranquility.transom by Beth Surdut 2007bamboodentistdoor.jpg (395390 bytes)        Sea Plane Surdut mural

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June 2007--Speaking of life and love, Beth created a colorful, joyous chuppah chuppah.jpg Jewish wedding canopy

May 2007 Senses Magazine~SensesMAY07.photo of Beth Surdut by Brancifort feature profile of Beth and her work in the Mind, Body, Spirit issue

Experience a sense of Beth's bliss at two Sarasota exhibitions in May ~ June

Senses Gallery, Adams Lane in Towles Court, Sarasota, Florida

New Mythology: Fables, Mysteries, and Circe's Dating Pool

Bliss Gallery, Ocean Blvd, Siesta Key, Florida

 Mermaids, Madmen and Dragon Scales                                                             

 

 

 

 

        Pomegranate Stain (detail) ©Beth Surdut 2006                                               Exuberant ©Beth Surdut 2006   

                         Pomegranate.Stain1det.jpg (52632 bytes)                                               Surdut Exuberant Mermaid              

           Angels,Clowns,Loggerheads &Butterflies swim amidst ambient walls--private commissioned paintings with ambient walls

                                                                The Aquarium ©Beth Surdut 2007

                                                                      Loggerhead detail

 

            To Russia with  love: The official mayoral delegation from Vladimir returned home in January with

                                                    Come Walk With Me    ©Beth Surdut 2007          

"You have created this gift from your heart, and I am honored to bring a piece of your heart back to Vladimir for our people to see,"

said Yuri Fedorov, head of the Vladimir Department of International Relations and Tourism.

                         Created for Sarasota Sister Cities Association as a gift from Sarasota, Florida  to Vladimir, Russia

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         A visionary invitation to an egalitarian world that respects and embraces all cultures.

 

Support WSLR-- home grown radio with a global  perspective--Give the station $200 or more
and receive a luscious signed Beth Surdut print. Click here.

Talk to me about Dream Vessels, the international creative visualization project, if you want to be a sponsor or participant in particularly, but never limited to, San Francisco, Miami, NYC, Paris, London and Barcelona.

The Design Empress strikes again--January 2007  Sarasota Homes & Lifestyles magazine features a color-luscious place setting from the Surdut Tropical Linen Collection. Three designs are available at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Stay tuned for  a MEET  THE ARTIST date.

January 9, 2007 at  Surface Design Guild of Sarasota, Beth presented Dancing with the Mirthful Muse  a lively and inspirational discussion on fostering creativity.

July/Aug 2006 Sarasota Magazine, that chic and savvy tome of taste, features a fab article and pictures of Planet Beth.  Linens featured .Beth Surdut photo by  Luca  Guaneri

If you missed the Creators and Collectors Tour of seven artists  homes and studios chosen  by the Fine Arts Society Society of Sarasota, please contact me for your own tour of my studio. Small groups are welcome.We had a fabulous  time  with paintings  sold to collectors in  Rhode Island, Chicago, and Canada.

 

 

Surdut Tropical Table Linen Collection which debuted at   Bloomingdale's, is available at the Ringling Museum, featured in The Boston Globe's Life At Home, includes napkins, placemats printed and traced in gold on 100% cotton celebrate the romance of the tropics.

Bamboo Forest placemats and napkins, were originally commissioned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts after record breaking sales of the Surdut Tropical Table Linen Collection in conjunction with the spectacular Gauguin Tahiti blockbuster exhibition.

   Birds of Paradise grow on a lush red or bold blue ground ; orange Heliconia on elegant black debuted in Bloomingdale's in Manhattan and Boca Raton in 2004.  

                 Bamboo Forest                                                                 

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Let's Go Hawaiian January 31-June 20, 2004: Beth designed this hot Hawaiian shirt show at the American Textile History  Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts with a jungle, waterfall, volcano and beaches featuring a vintage Aloha shirt collection along with the current generation of aloha wear, including this artist's one-of-a-kind hand painted silk men's shirts. Great media coverage in The Boston Globe,  Boston Herald,  Lawrence Eagle Tribune, Lowell Sun, Harvard Hillside and more.

                     The Ultimate Aloha Shirt™   by Beth Surdut is pure silk      Visit  the body art page for more                                       

moorish shirtF.JPG (36028 bytes)                          Anthurium & Ginger Shirt

                        Hand painted, custom designed, custom sewn, custom fit                                

Ultimate Aloha Shirts™   © Beth Surdut    

Visit  the body art page for more    

 

NOTECARDS: Sets of 12 cards in three mixed images are now available for $28.00 a set: Heliconia, Jungle Walk, and Macaws and Mangoes. Send an email for payment instructions.

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