The artists iconoclastic work comes to light at last.

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Five small black-and-white prints offer varying interpretations of constellated lines, warped streetscapes, and architectural surfaces.

But who was Bettina?

A lifelong New Yorker one difficult to insert into the citys known histories of art.

Bettina’s sculpture and photography at Ulrik.

Her work dealt in the visual languages of her contemporaries: Op Art, conceptualism, minimalism.

And yet its not clear she had meaningful relationships with any of the better-known artists around her.

Bettinas ambition, like her artworks themselves, was pure and mathematical: It exceeded recognition.

Portrait of Bettina, 1960s.

Her ambition was completion.

Her only duty as an artist was to herself.

And you must pursue it!

Photograph from the series Phenomenological New York, 1970s.

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Bettina sculpture, Mass Levitation. Concrete Space. Where Space Becomes Matter, Matter Becomes Volume, 1965-75