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Beth Galston is a sculptor who builds environments based on the interplay of light and space. For over twenty years she has built a diverse body of work including sculptural installations and objects, large scale public sculptures and collaborative multi-media performances. Using a range of media—resin, metal mesh, trees, leaves, lights, electronics—she creates multilayered spaces through which viewers move and interact. Whether outdoors, in a gallery or in the theater, her sculptures create a sense of place, a moment of magic or transformation.

Galston was born in Los Angeles and lives and works in Carlisle, MA. She received a Master's degree in environmental art from MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1981, where she was also a fellow for five years. Her installations have been exhibited nationally in galleries and museums, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, ME; Rose Art Museum, MA; Lehman College Gallery of Art, NYC; Yeshiva University Museum, NYC; Currier Gallery of Art, NH; MIT Museum; Massachusetts College of Art; and the Nelson Atkins Museum, MO, among others. Major works include: "Thunderbird Bridge", a vehicular bridge for an eight lane freeway in Phoenix, AZ; "Tree/House", an outdoor architectural sculpture at Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC; and "Aviary", a collaborative video/sculpture/dance performance at MIT's Media Lab.

Galston is the recipient of numerous awards, including a two-year fellowship from the Bunting Institute, Radcliffe, an NEA InterArts award, a Massachusetts Artists Fellowship in Sculpture, and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, and Sculpture Space, Inc. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Art in America, Boston Globe, Art New England, featured in a two-page article in Sculpture Magazine, and was on the cover of artsMEDIA. Her installations using lighting and translucent forms cast from nature were recently exhibited at the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Wave Hill, Bronx, NYC; and the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. She has just completed a public art project in Arizona: "Color Walk", a sculpture made of colored glass for an eighty-foot-long pedestrian walkway at the new Mesa Arts Center, which will open this fall.