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Betty Ross
Memorial Artists’ Award
Betty Ross Memorial Artists' Award
An annual award recognizing an artist exhibiting at UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art who connects with the vibrant spirit of the inimitable Betty Ross, painter and multi-media artist, as well as co-founder and long-time costume designer for Theatreworks in Colorado Springs. To be selected by GOCA’s Director, in dialogue with her family.
The Artist
Betty Ross has been a pillar of the Colorado Springs arts community for decades.
Catalog
View the catalog of art from the Betty Ross Pop-Up Exhibition: “Back, Moving Forward”, October, 2021
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Betty Ross
Betty Ross is a pillar of the Colorado Springs arts community and was the subject of a major exhibition at the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art in late 2017. Ross has lived and worked in the Pikes Peak region since 1976, working as UCCS Theatreworks’ Costume Designer for many of the past decades alongside her robust practice as a studio artist. Ross’s extensive travels in Europe, Asia, and across the American West have generated ideas for paintings and costumes alike, from the landscape, people, politics, and above all the sense of place she encountered.
Betty Ross, trained as an art historian, has an MA in Theatre from UC Berkeley. Accident and experiment are her friends.
She has exhibited locally at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, at the Sangre de Christo Arts and Conference Center, in Pueblo, been a member of Spark Gallery in Denver, and won awards in Taos and Kansas City and Loveland.
Three residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson helped connect her with abstract expressionist painting–Michael Goldberg was the main influence. She received an NEA grant to travel to Romania to compare Gypsies (Roma) with artists, and used the data to produce a series of abstract paintings that were exhibited at the Artemesia Gallery in Chicago and the Manitou Art Center in Manitou Springs.
Betty Ross was featured in a major retrospective exhibition at the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art in 2017, the final exhibition in the historic campus space before moving to the new Ent Center for the Arts.
 
Catalog
Betty Ross Artworks
2021 Giving Back, Moving Forward: Pop-Up Exhibition
UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art, Ent Center for the Arts
 
TIER 1
Sail Away Crutch, 1991
27" x 46" mixed media
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Rose Crutch, 1991
8" x 49" mixed media
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Indian Crutch, 1991
43" x 29" mixed media
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Orphan Crutch, 1991
8.5" x 51" mixed media
Tier 1
 
TIER 2
Cordoba Mosque, 2015
17" x 21" watercolor collage on paper
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Running Water Bay - Ireland, 1991
20.75" x 16.75" watercolor on paper
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Zion 1, 2008
25" x 21.25" watercolor on paper
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Zion 2, 2008
24.75" x 21" watercolor on paper
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Spain 1 - The Alpujarra, 2008
20.75" x 18.5" watercolor on paper
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Spain 2 - The Alpujarra, 2008
20.75" x 18.5" watercolor on paper
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September 11th 2002, 2002
23.5" x 19.25" watercolor on paper
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Untitled Flowers, 1977
20" x 16" watercolor on paper
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Pressed Flowers, 1991
22" x 19" acrylic collage on paper
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Reef, 1993
23" x 20" watercolor collage on paper
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Gulf War Collage 1, 1991
23" x 20" acrylic collage on paper
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Zion Dark and Light, 2005
25" x 21" watercolor on paper
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Tejon Garden, 1984
21" x 17" watercolor on paper
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June, 1979
10" x 8" ink on paper
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Sesembra Umbrellas, 2018
9" x 12" watercolor on paper
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Sesembra Dock, 2018
12" x 9" watercolor on paper
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View of Greenwich, 1989
15" x 12" etching
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Mallorca Beach, 2018
15" x 10" ink and pastel on paper
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Portugal, 2018
16" x 13" collage
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Stonington Clouds, 2013
18.5" x 14" watercolor on paper
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Stonington with Red Boat, 2013
18.5" x 14" watercolor on paper
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Rudari Wagon, 1990
18" x 15" photograph
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Hong Kong 2, 1998
18" x 15.75" watercolor on paper
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Storm at Sea, 2016
18" x 16" acrylic collage on paper
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TIER 3
Glorious Westcliffe Collage, 1978
28" x 36" collage
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Xian Cyclist, 1998
25.5" x 37.5" watercolor on paper
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Walk About 1, 2002
23.5" x 38" acrylic collage on paper
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Potato Patch Vallentuna, 2005
38" x 29" acrylic on canvas
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Daphnis and Chloe 1, 2019
26.5" x 33" acrylic collage on paper
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Daphnis and Chloe 2, 2019
26.5" x 34" acrylic collage on paper
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Christi at Pylos, 2019
34" x 26.5" acrylic collage on paper
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Daphnis and Chloe 3, 2019
26.5" x 34" acrylic collage on paper
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Hyde Park, 2015
38" x 30" acrylic on canvas
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Under Sea, 1982
30" x 38" acrylic collage on paper
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Bathing Suit, 1992
28" x 41" acrylic on paper
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Daphnis and Chloe 4, 2019
34" x 26.5" acrylic collage on paper
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Greece Drawings - Fortress Molyvos, 1966
17" x 14" pencil on paper
Tier 3
 
TIER 4
Put That In Your Pipe, 2004
55.5" x 46" acrylic on paper
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Pueblo Lace, 2007
48.5" x 56.5" acrylic collage on canvas
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Green Lace, 2008
51" x 36.5" acrylic collage on canvas
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Tilted Lake Collage, 1983
51.5" x 48" acrylic collage on paper
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Bejing Lake, 1998
46.5" x 33.5" watercolor on paper
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Windblown, 2014
44" x 31" acrylic collage on canvas
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Waterlily Pond, 2014
44" x 31" acrylic collage on canvas
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Homage to Havel (Leaving Flowers Is Not A Punishable Crime), 1990
51.5" x 44" acrylic on canvas
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Trafalgar Square, 2014
43" x 30.5" acrylic collage on canvas
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Baltic Sea - Sweden, 2012
47" x 29" acrylic on canvas
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Bottle Boy, 1993
35" x 43.5" acrylic on canvas
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Fringe, 1993
44.5" x 36" acrylic on canvas
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Liberian Refugees, 2003
37" x 50" watercolor on paper
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Kiev Barricade, 2014
41" x 30" acrylic collage on canvas
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Fair Melucina, 1990
37" x 47" acrylic on canvas
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Succulent 2, 2009
28" x 44" acrylic on canvas
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Succulent 4, 2009
31" x 43" acrylic on canvas
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Thames, 2015
44" x 30" acrylic on canvas
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Yuba 2, 1998
48.75" x 38.5" acrylic on canvas
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Madame Pompidour refuses to rouge for a week because of the Lisbon earthquake, 1989
63.5" x 46.25" acrylic on canvas
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Hercules and the Hesperides, 1993
48.25" x 54.25" acrylic on canvas
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Three Girls (Cornetu) - Madia, Princess, Amazement, 1989
44" x 35" acrylic on canvas
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Skin Quarter Virginia, 1995
48" x 43" acrylic on canvas
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Search for the Garden, 1989
33" x 45" acrylic on canvas
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Vallentuna Sweden, 2005
30" x 48" acrylic on canvas
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Romanian Dream, 1979
50" x 33" acrylic on canvas
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Untitled (White and Blue), 2005
43" x 30" acrylic on canvas
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Coachella Palms, 2000
62.5" x 29.5" acrylic on canvas
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Gihon with Ducks 1, 1999
38.5" x 48" acrylic on canvas
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Gihon with Ducks 2, 1999
38.5" x 48" acrylic on canvas
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Salamanca Rio Tormes, 2008
45" x 29.5" acrylic on canvas
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Mani Tower, 2001
34" x 43" acrylic on canvas
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Bali Temple, 2002
38.5" x 55.5" acrylic on canvas
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Blue Storm, 1991
50" x 33" acrylic on canvas
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Goddess with Thread, 1995
43" x 36" acrylic on canvas
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Thrift Shop in Salida, 1995
36" x 45" acrylic on canvas
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Cactus, 2007
44" x 48" acrylic on canvas with lace
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Spanish Garden, 2007
52" x 50" acrylic on canvas with lace
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Tempest Costume Designs, 1985
48" x 40" acrylic and pencil on paper
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Zion Triple Peak, 2002
30" x 44" acrylic on paper
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Abstract Game, 1978
48" x 36" acrylic collage on paper
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Tilted Lake Westcliffe, 1983
48" x 44" acrylic collage on paper
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Back Yard Mount View Lane, 2001
38" x 41" acrylic on paper
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Destruction Dislocation Disruption, 2018
41" x 39" collage
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Romance Blue, 2007
46" x 52" acrylic on canvas with lace
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Hopi Butterfly, 1990
52" x 42" acrylic on canvas
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TIER 5
Hopi Mural 4, 1990
50.5" x 59" acrylic on canvas
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Hopi Mural 1, 1990
63.5" x 55.5" acrylic on canvas
Tier 5