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February Issue 2004
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Juried Exhibition of Works by Members and Works by Linda Ruth Dickinson
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, is presenting several exhibitions including, New Works, featuring a juried exhibition of works by members of the Artspace Artists Association, on view through Feb. 28, 2004 in Gallery 1. In the center's Upfront Gallery will be the exhibit, Entrance State, featuring works by Linda Ruth Dickson, on view from Feb. 6 - 28, 2004.
Andrea
Gomez 
Ashley Gruber Clark
New Works is an annual juried exhibition for members of the Artspace Artists Association. The Artspace Artists Association is a professional artist membership organization. Artists are accepted into the membership through a jury process that occurs twice per year. The exhibit represents work created within the past twelve months. It is an opportunity for Artspace Artists to present their most current and innovative work.
This year's juror is Ashley Kistler. Kistler was appointed Curator at the Hand Workshop Art Center, in Richmond, VA, in the spring of 1999. She previously served as Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, having joined the museum's staff in 1984. Since then, she has organized over 50 exhibitions and a wide array of special programs, from symposia and artists' residencies to numerous film/video programs and performing arts events. Her exhibitions, some of which have traveled nationally, have featured the work of regional, national, and international artists in solo and thematic presentations. Kistler received a BA in Art History from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Entrance State continues Linda Ruth Dickinson's ongoing personal documentation of a need for transcendence in her own life by the utilization of a visual space that is variously and concurrently perceived in dimensional states. These include the Surface (paint); the Penetrable (birch wood, which by its very nature has a transparency); an interest in Time (ideas of light and speed); and of the Spiritual, or that seen with the heart or emotionally felt/understood. Working with a visual statement that marries surface effects with a revealing of the support (in this case the wood graining) gives the artist the opportunity to play with notions of flatness and distance at the same time as intention and chance.
Dickinson explores the ability of abstracted imagery to evoke personal and corporate transcendent communion and memory through internalized sacred space. This process is accomplished by providing access points of journey encouraging the viewing of the work as altars of possibility.
Dickinson is a self-taught artist born and raised on the island of Taiwan to Midwestern American missionaries. Her work draws on this cross cultural heritage to bridge seemingly disparate outlooks by seeking an expression of the "intangible" through universal iconography in a synthesis of Eastern and Western thought.
Dickinson has been a member of the Artspace Artists Association for fourteen years. 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, IL, among others. In 1996 Dickinson's work was a subject of , a PBS documentary on sacred art.
Artspace is a non-profit visual art center dedicated to presenting quality exhibitions and education programs in an open-studio environment. Guided tours of exhibitions and artist studios are available for groups of 10 or more. Artspace is fully handicap accessible to persons with disabilities. Needs will be accommodated upon request. Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts; by the United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, with funds from the United Arts campaign and the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council; by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission; and by individuals; businesses; corporations; and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings or contact the center at 919/821-2787 or on the web at (www.artspacenc.org).
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