Positively Earnest
Klowden Mann
February 16–March 23, 2019, Los Angeles
Positively Earnest centers around Hubby’s interest in how language shapes experience. With this series, Hubby utilizes constructive words via text paintings and photographs. The words function as alternative self-talk: the artist’s ideal for how she views herself, and how she views and is viewed by others. The paintings are interspersed with photographic self-portraits that depict the artist, arms raised in front of a variety of idyllic landscapes with a word written across her bottom, each photo with a different word: ebullient, empathetic, celestial, earnest, valiant, serene, majestic. It’s ASS-pirational!
The act of painting these words is a physical manifestation of experience-dependent neuroplasticity—changing neural pathways through environment and reinforcement—as well as a way of taking on ideas of artistic legacy. Hubby’s work comfortably creates an alternative to the fear of emotional expression and joy.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Installation view, Klowden Mann, Los Angeles.
Logophile C, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. BH2871
Logophile C, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. (detail) BH2871
Logophile A, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. BH2862
Logophile A, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. (detail) BH2862
Logophile B, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. BH2858
Logophile B, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 36 x 72 inches. (detail) BH2858
mini Logophile C, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 22 inches. BH2861
mini Logophile C, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 22 inches. (detail) BH2861
mini Logophile B, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 22 inches.BH2860
mini Logophile B, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 22 x 22 inches. (detail) BH2860
Celestial, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 31 x 23.5 inches. Unique. BH2864
Celestial, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 31 x 23.5 inches (detail). Unique. BH2864
Valiant, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2868
Valiant, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches (detail). Unique. BH2868
Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2866
Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. (detail). Unique. BH2866
Majestic, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2869
Majestic, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. (detail). Unique. BH2869
Valiant, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2868
Valiant, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. (detail). Unique. BH2868
Serene, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2867
Serene, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. (detail). Unique. BH2867
Ebullient, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Lamda print with flocked lettering, 23.5 x 31 inches. Unique. BH2870
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Neon, plastic, 9 x 30 inches. Edition of 3 plus 1 AP. BH2863
Positively Earnest, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Neon, plastic, 9 x 30 inches (detail). Edition of 3 plus 1 AP. BH2863
Play is the highest form of research, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 9 x 10.25 inches. BH0141
What you resist persists, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 8.25 x 10.25 inches. BH2876
Fearlessness is the ultimate joy, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 11.5 x 13.5 inches.
Thoughts become things, choose the good ones, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 8.75 x 10.75 inches. BH2880
Be the change you want to see in the world, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 11.25 x 9.75 inches. BH2872
Energy flows where attention goes, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 12.25 x10.5 inches. BH2874
Relax, nothing is under control, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 9 x 10.25 inches. BH2882
Don’t let anyone walk through your mind with their dirty feet, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 18.75 x 10.25 inches. BH2886
The quieter you become, the more you can hear, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 9.75 x 11.5 inches. BH2875
Compassion is the radicalism of our time, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 9.75 x 11.25 inches. BH2877
We see things not as they ar, but as we are, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 10.25 x 12 inches.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 9.25 x 10.75 inches. BH2884
Death is an illusion, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 10.75 x 9.25 inches. BH2873
What we think, we become, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 11.75 x 8.75 inches. BH2881
You are the sky, everything else–it’s just the weather, Bettina Hubby, 2019. Archival print with acrylic paint on cotton rag paper, 11.75 x 9.25 inches. BH2885