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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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