Education
She got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Honors College at Arizona State University in 2001.
She got her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Honors College at Arizona State University in 2001.
She taught Life Drawing and Painting at New School for the Arts and Academics in Tempe, Arizona from 2002-2007 before leaving academia to paint full-time. Bess is known for her highly realistic, sometimes surrealistic, baroque-style oil paintings on panel. Her work has drawn comparisons to that of the Dutch Masters, as well as to certain subgenres of the lowbrow art movement.
Currently Bess helps to organize the Phoenix branch of Doctor Sketchy"s Anti-Art School, and writes/illustrates a comic book titled, "Fighting Death Through Reanimation".
Selected Solo Shows
2014
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2012
Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2011
Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
2010
Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
Rodger LaPelle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009
Copro Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Perihelion Arts, Phoenix, Arizona
2008
Cattle Track Arts Compound, Scottsdale, Arizona
2007
Trinity Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. May.
2006Modified Arts, Phoenix, Arizona.
November–December. 2005
Casa Grande Museum of Art, Casa Grande, Arizona.
January–February.
