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Artist Betsy Eby has spent the past year looking inward. Throughout 2020, Eby took isolation as an opportunity to focus. From her studio in Columbus, Georgia, the artist notes that she’s felt closer to her painting practice than she has in a long time. Unstructured creative time has allowed for Eby to improvise, move slowly, and rework her large-scale compositions.

Eby’s encaustic paintings sit somewhere between landscapes, conceptual musical scores, and Abstract Expressionist explorations. Sometimes Eby’s references are literal: The vibrant greens and misty blues of Elysium, 2021, form …