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October Issue 2004
Tyndall Galleries in Chapel Hill, NC, Features
Works by Linda Ruth Dickinson
Tyndall Galleries
in Chapel Hill, NC, is presenting the exhibition, Visiting
Grace: New Paintings, featuring works by Linda Ruth Dickinson,
on view through Nov. 13, 2004.
A self-taught artist born to midwestern American missionaries and raised on the island of Taiwan, Linda Ruth Dickinsondraws on her transcultural heritage to bridge seemingly disparate outlooks by seeking to express the intangible through universal iconography in a synthesis of eastern and western thought.
Translating her vision primarily through paint on panel or canvas, Dickinson attempts a charting of hope within various forms of the Sacred. Because she believes that work can make spiritual beliefs manifest, her art focuses on the expression of those possibilities connecting the viewer to that which may extend beyond usual experience and ordinary existence.
This exploration is displayed in abstracted imagery reminiscent of familiar terrestrial perspective that is also evocative of the inner eye. A threshold entrance to transcendent memory and communion, Dickinson's works encourage a viewing as altars of possibility that suggest, as she states it, "a tranquility observant and embracing of the declaration and dialogue between Heaven and Earth".
Dickinson's recent shows include those sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, the Graham Center Museum in Illinois, the Bade Museum in Berkeley, CA, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee, the David Adler Cultural Center in Illinois, North Park College in Chicago and Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, Sawtooth Center for Visual Arts in Winston-Salem, Artspace and Meredith College in Raleigh, NC.
Dickinson's work was a subject of Chicago's Sacred Treasures, a 1996 PBS documentary on sacred art.
For further information check our NC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at 919/942-2290 or on the web at (www.tyndallgalleries.com).
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