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December Issue 2009

Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Linda Ruth Dickinson and Ashley Lathe

Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will present two new exhibits including, Lifeline, featuring works by Linda Ruth Dickinson, on view in the Lobby gallery from Dec. 4 - 26, 2009, and Artifacts, featuring works by Ashley Lathe on view in Upfront Gallery through Dec. 26, 2009.

Linda Ruth Dickinson

Three years ago Linda Ruth Dickinson embarked on a journey to encounter the possibilities within vertical structures of color. For Dickinson, this work is not only about hue, it is also an exploration in perception and optics. Her quest has also become an investigation of the feasibility of conveying or inferring narrative through the limits of line and chroma. Through her works, Dickinson implies movement and sequence, but the viewer's participation is crucial. Each spectator provides the essential answer to each painting, bringing his or her own experience. Dickinson notes, "Through the eyegate our hearts recall moments of wholeness or churning, but reach for resolution. Success determined by balance makes room for calm, as well as chaos. Like a long piece of music, there are passages that awaken and passages of quiet; a lifeline through the medium of paint."
 
Dickinson is a self-taught artist who was born and raised on the island of Taiwan to Midwestern American missionaries. Her work draws on this transcultural heritage. Dickinson's work has been exhibited throughout the country and is represented by The Mahler Fine Art, Raleigh, NC;  Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill, NC; Broadhurst Gallery, Pinehurst, NC; The Little Gallery, Smith Mountain Lake, VA; Gardner Colby Gallery, Naples, FL; Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA; and the Dean Day Gallery, Houston, TX. Dickinson's work is in numerous public and private collections.

Ashley Lathe's watercolors are about dynamics and process. The temperament of the medium becomes a record of a painting's creation by capturing the unaltered movement of the hand that produces the image. Painting is an act, and watercolor becomes a record of that act -  an artifact of the time and place it was created. Lathe's recent works have attempted to remove the artist's hand from the process to create records of other actions, such as the natural forces of rain and wind.
 
A native of North Carolina, Lathe began his art career via the  commercial arts. Graduating in 1992 from East Carolina University in Graphic Design and Illustration, he worked for several years in web design and marketing before teaching art classes at the university level. Lathe's work is represented in several corporate collections and publications. Currently his work focuses on the ability of watercolor to capture and record the rhythms of natural elements.

For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the center at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).

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