Hi there! Lots of new people coming to my profile these days so I thought I'd introduce myself. My name's Beth. My apartment is in Montreal and my studio is in Mexico City, which makes for a really long commute (or a life of stress, instability and financial precarity haha lololol). I like nice watercolour paper, cheap wigs, and face swaps, and my non-DALLE art can be found over at @bethisms . Here's a bunch of selfies and such that I had on hand that I fed to the DALLE machine. Nice to meet you all!
This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a long time now, but I never quite knew how to articulate it (because we all know that social media is where nuance goes to die). Some of you have probably wondered why I haven’t posted any of my weirdo sentientmuppetfactory content for a long time. The short answer is, “Well, it’s complicated.” Aligning oneself as “pro-AI” or “anti-AI” feels reductive here, but the rise of slop and ethical and ecological implications of AI usage have all started to weigh down on me and I struggled to continue to have my name associated with AI as its place in our lives became increasingly dystopian. Additionally, as a visual artist whose practice predates my usage of AI tools, I felt like this experience broke my brain, made me doubt my own abilities, fizzled up my already minuscule attention span. This is not a forever good-bye; I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing here with this account and my creations. AI isn’t going anywhere, and I still believe we need to develop an AI literacy and that artists have an opportunity to use this powerful tool to challenge conventional modes of thinking because the bad guys are already having a heyday with it. But in the meantime, enjoy this article by @chris.hampton for @cbcarts who gave me the space to describe all my complicated feelings and how they fed in to my latest show Autoeffigies at @mcbridecontemporain . I’ll put a link to the article in my bio for those interested. We also hear from the wonderful @dissociative_dreams who is making powerful work on here in a way that is authentic to them. You can always find me making my analog weirdo art over at @bethisms if that floats your boat. Sending much love to you all 🩷
🎥 Discover our latest video featuring Beth Frey’s current exhibition 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨.
This video offers an intimate glimpse into Frey’s evolving practice, one rooted in analogue strategies for living with the algorithm, while reflecting on the body and its representation in the digital realm. The artist shares her thoughts, techniques, and inspirations behind this presentation — a unique mix of complex watercolours, recent videos, and an evolving series of small sketches that will grow throughout the exhibition run.
🔗 Click the link in our bio to watch the full video on our website.
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🎥 Découvrez notre dernière vidéo mettant en vedette l’exposition actuelle de Beth Frey 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨.
Cette vidéo nous invite à découvrir l’univers en constante expansion de Frey, ancré dans des stratégies analogues qui lui permettent de coexister avec l’algorithme tout en réfléchissant au corps et à sa représentation dans l’espace numérique. L’artiste nous partage les réflexions, techniques et sources d’inspiration qui ont mené à cette présentation — un mélange unique d’aquarelles, d’œuvres vidéos et d’une série de petits croquis qui s’enrichira tout au long de l’exposition.
🔗 Cliquez sur le lien dans notre bio pour écouter la vidéo complète sur notre site web.
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BETH FREY 🎭
@bethisms@sentientmuppetfactory
Artiste invitée | Invited Artist
Beth Frey (née en 1980 à Calgary, Alberta) est titulaire d’une M.A de l’Université Concordia et d’un B.A de l’Université de Victoria. Elle a présenté ses œuvres dans de nombreuses expositions individuelles au Canada, au Royaume-Uni, aux États-Unis et au Mexique. Son travail a également été inclus dans des expositions collectives majeures, notamment au Museo Cabañas à Guadalajara (Mexique), au Dowse Art Museum à Lower Hutt (Nouvelle-Zélande), et au Musée d’art de Joliette. Ses collaborations avec le collectif vocal expérimental Phth ont été présentées à la Biennale FEMSA 2024 à Guanajuato (Mexique) ainsi qu’à la Société des Arts Technologiques à Montréal en 2025.
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Beth Frey (b. 1980, Calgary, Alberta) holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from University of Victoria. She has exhibited widely in solo exhibitions across Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico. Her work has also been included in significant group exhibitions, including the Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara, Mexico; the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt, New Zealand; the Musée d’art de Joliette. Her collaborations with the experimental voice collective Phth has been a part of the 2024 Femsa Biennale in Guanajuato, Mexico, and at the Société des Arts Technologiques in Montreal in 2025.
Image 1 : @natanael_guzman_jpg
Image 3 & 9 : mother’s tankstation
Image 6 : Pamela Weissenberg
Image 7 : Galerie d’art Stewart Hall
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One of the four videos featured in 𝘼𝙪𝙩𝙤𝙚𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙚𝙨 by Beth Frey, currently on display at the gallery, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the artist at work. This grouping of short clips reveals how Frey inserts herself into her videos– using her body against a green screen to develop a process of body-collage or digital puppetry, animating her drawings imperfectly through her own movements.
This work culminates in the video piece 𝘈𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 (the exhibition’s title piece), in which her created creatures—also embodiments of herself—build an effigy of “The Artist,” a cartoonized version of Frey that collapses the boundary between maker and made. Playful in nature, Frey’s videos’ cartoonish energy mirrors the tactility of her works on paper. Here, the body reasserts itself—stitched into the image and leaving traces of lived experience within the digital space.
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NEW PRINTS ADDED TO THE SHOP! Link in bio. I’ll be keeping the shop open for a couple more months and in the meantime, I’ve dropped 10 new images, many of which have never been shared here before, along with a few old faves. Use the code OHMYRELISH20 get a 20% discount for the rest of July. Love an image on this page that you don’t see in the shop? DM me or fill out the contact form on the shop page and I can make you a custom print (additional fees apply).
NEW PRINTS AVAILABLE! Link in bio. I’ll be keeping the shop open for a couple more months and in the meantime, I’ve dropped 20 new images, many of which have never been shared here before. Use the code OHMYRELISH20 get a 20% discount for the rest of July. Love an image on this page that you don’t see in the shop? DM me or fill out the contact form on the shop page and I can make you a custom print (additional fees apply).
