{"id":29072,"date":"2025-10-14T12:35:42","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=29072"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:39:56","slug":"betty-parsons-sheer-energy-at-the-de-la-warr-pavilion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/betty-parsons-sheer-energy-at-the-de-la-warr-pavilion\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy at the De La Warr Pavilion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press release by Alexander Gray Associates<\/em>
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\nBetty Parsons, Circles, 1967 (detail), Acrylic on canvas, 44 1\/8 x 93 in (112.39 x 236.22 cm)<\/em><\/p>\n

Betty Parsons’s solo exhibition Sheer Energy<\/a><\/em> at the De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, United Kingdom, opens today, Saturday, October 4. The show will be on view through January 18, 2026. The institution’s press release follows:<\/p>\n

Throughout her career, Betty Parsons<\/a> (1900 \u2013 1982) created an extensive body of paintings and sculptures characterised by their bold, playful and expressive style. Sheer Energy is the first institutional survey exhibition of her work in Europe and traces the trajectory of her practice across five decades, from the 1930s to the 1980s.<\/p>\n

Parsons is primarily known as the visionary New York gallerist who significantly shaped twentieth-century art in the US through the Betty Parsons Gallery. Alongside her gallery career, Parsons maintained a rigorous artistic practice, working at weekends at her studio in Southold, Long Island. As she once observed in an interview: \u2018When I\u2019m painting in my studio\u2026I forget the gallery entirely.\u2019 This exhibition focuses on Parsons\u2019 parallel practice of making and her ongoing pursuit to capture the fleeting qualities of her surroundings, which she described as the \u2018sheer energy\u2019 or \u2018invisible presence\u2019 of a situation.<\/p>\n

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\nBetty Parsons, Sand with Shapes, 1966, Acrylic on canvas79 1\/2 x 69 1\/8 in (201.9 x 175.6 cm)<\/em><\/p>\n

Arranged through a loose chronology across both the Pavilion\u2019s galleries, this exhibition highlights the cycles, returns and layers that are a fundamental part of the encounter with Parsons\u2019 body of work. It is the \u2018sheer energy\u2019, the quality of life, that unfolds across her dynamic and capacious oeuvre, as she captured not what a place or event looked like, but what it made her feel. Parsons\u2019 is a practice that resists periodisation; rather, it privileges the role of spontaneity and intuition in channelling momentary glimmers within the present.<\/p>\n

Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy<\/em> is curated by Joseph Constable, Head of Exhibitions, De La Warr Pavilion, and is realised in collaboration with The Betty Parsons and William P. Rayner Foundation, represented by Alison Jacques, London, and Alexander Gray Associates, New York.<\/p>\n

More information on Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy<\/a><\/em> and Betty Parsons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Betty Parsons’s retrospective exhibition ‘Sheer Energy’ at the De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, United Kingdom, opens today, Saturday, October 4. The show will be on view through January 18, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29073,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1387],"class_list":["post-29072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting","tag-betty-parsons"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t