Sanctum
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2023, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 48 x 156”
Sibyl
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2024, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 84 x 48”
Eminence
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2020, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 48 x 156”
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Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2022, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Watercolor & white pencil on paper
Come Out Conjuring
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2022, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Watercolor & white pencil on paper
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Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2022, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Watercolor on paper
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Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2022, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Watercolor & white pencil on paper
I Dissent #1
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2020, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper.
Advice From the Enchanted Forest, Part Four
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2018, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper 22 x 23"
Private collection
Homing Device #2
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2019, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 30 x 44”
Gifts #1
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2016, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite & watercolor on vintage ledger paper, 13 x 15"
Osprey Eggs with Erased List
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2014, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on vintage ledger paper, 11 x 9"
Ledger Paper Series
I enjoy working with found papers, including these pages from an accounting ledger that was serious business to someone in the 1970’s. But how much does such a thing really matter within the larger context of our world? Does it retain meaning once the company and people who worked there are gone? Humans invest great importance in documents, yet they often have little regard for our irreplaceable natural world and feel free to scatter it with detritus and to destroy it in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.
In this series of drawings, I’ve juxtaposed often-unobserved creatures and natural objects with used ledger pages and text transcribed from found grocery lists. These outdated documents form marks to which we are immediately drawn, and which offer enigmatic text and unsolvable puzzles.
Early Indications of a Conspiracy, Part One
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2016, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Charcoal & pastel on paper, 40 x 30"
Early Indications of a Conspiracy, Part Two
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2016 all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Charcoal & pastel on paper, 40 x 30"
Early Indications of a Conspiracy, Part Three
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2016, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Charcoal & pastel on paper, 40 x 30"
Conundrum #1
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2016, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 19.5 x 27"
Conundrum #2
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2017, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 22 x 30"
Advice From the Enchanted Forest, Part Two
Copyright Beatrix Raven Wentzka 2017, all rights reserved. Photo by Jerry Mathiason.
Graphite on paper, 11.5 x 8.5"