We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Becky Guttin. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Becky below.

Alright, Becky thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you talk to us about a project that’s meant a lot to you?

I can’t say i have had a one and only most meaningful project. I have been an artist for almost 50 years. My first exhibition was in 1976. i selected pieces that i had worked for that show very carefully as it was the beginning of my artistic career. Before i was a language teacher, that was my college degree. All these past years, i have had incredible and very meaningful projects. Each one of them was a challenge for me.
I have been invited several times to work in different countries where i tried to immerse myself into their culture and atmosphere in order to create something meaningful for them and for me, and site specific as well. For example, I used the materials that there were available, in a location selected by them and everything obviously under their working regulations. When each project is done, there’s a very special feeling, very difficult to explain. I don’t feel attached to it. I’m ready for the next one. However it means the world to me, because each and every one of my projects, is worked with total devotion, seriousness and professionalism .

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Becky Guttin was born and raised in Mexico City. The education she got from her parents, was enriched with museums visits, art conversations, reading and meeting with artists. Without knowing it, that’s where her passion for art started. Becky got a degree in Mexico City as a Hebrew and Yiddish teacher. After some years of teaching she asked for a Sabbatical year, which in fact continues until today. That’s when she started consciously practicing art. All the family trips, together with the numerous working trips, have enriched her professional and personal life. Guttin is an internationally exhibited artist, she has been a guest lecturer all over the world. She has received seven art prizes and has participated in seventeen International Art Symposia and in fifteen Art Biennales. Guttin has been featured in thirty-seven solo exhibitions. She has worked in numerous countries. Forty eight of her pieces belong to permanent collections in museums, and in private and public spaces, such as universities, consulates, sculpture parks, cultural centers, hospitals, schools, etc. She worked as a volunteer at Scripps Hospital Encinitas for five years, where she led art therapy workshops. She Lives and works in San Diego. Becky Guttin has an independent studio where she continues to create sculpture, drawings, photography, installations and video. She loves to spend time with her family and friends, meet people and travel.

For you, what’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative?

My dad, Rafael – Fallo – Mareyna, RIP was an artist. He peacefully passed away recently at 93 years old. Painting was his life passion, however, becase of different circumstances, he had to quit painting for more than forty years. He approximately painted his last 18 years. Having ideas in his head motivated him to wake up, get dressed and to his studio daily. The creativity in his head was working 24/7. I think that’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative person. He felt stimulated every single day to paint and create new pieces, until he was physically unable to do it, ( and that was very short period of time, before his passing ) An artist remains an artist until his last breath …
If one is true to oneself, one feels free. Creating with freedom, what can be most rewarding …?

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

Being already and artist for some years ( almost 50 ) has taught me, that there’s no other way to create but by being yourself. Honest with yourself. Being just YOU and nobody else. Art critics, art historians, study the work of artists.. Each person is completely different from the other one. We all have different finger prints. What each artist creates must be different from others, just as his hand prints.
I work because I feel I need to do it.
Art doesn’t leave me. Neither sculpture, drawing or calligraphy.
I don’t try to to satisfy anybody’s taste.
What i create comes out from my gut, my brain, my hands… If people like it, so good ! If not, there’s anything i can do.
Be sure I won’t quit.

Contact Info:

• Website: beckyguttin.com
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