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May Issue 2009
Corrigan Gallery
in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Lynne Riding
Corrigan
Gallery in Charleston, SC, will present the exhibit, Connections
An Inner Landscape, featuring works by Lynne Riding,
on view from May 1 - 29, 2009.
A Welch native, Lynne Riding has a great love of landscape and has moved beyond that inspiration to the interior landscape. Her paintings are peaceful bits of intrigue that set up a tension that opens curiosity but does not create uneasiness. The consistent reinforcement of the importance of line and space emphasizes the search for essence. This continuing body of work is minimalist abstraction providing a calm to the complexity of the inner landscape.
As the artist says herself, "My interests lie in the subtle undercurrents, the not so blatant, crude or obvious; that which lies between the obvious. I believe that there is a validity or need for the poetic, in today's society, and through my work I am concerned with current tensions, aligned with notions of history, erosion and evidence of use."
"I endeavor while painting, to deal with traces of experience, an enquiry - a searching, ongoing journey, concerned with fleeting time, a negotiation of energy from form to formlessness and back again; the balance between clarity and uncertainty. My work continues to be concerned with impermanence, human frailty - the ephemeral nature of what we call reality, aligned with the dichotomy of enduring hope."
"While easing my way into a body of work I find truth, in say, a line observed in space or simple objects, using these, as a jumping off point to abstraction. By reducing the work to it's utmost simplicity - an essence - I come closer to the feeling that the object evokes in me - a honing of my own feelings in relation to the object. Evidence of my presence in the painting, in other words, the hand of the artist, is also important. It represents my having been there or felt my way through the space. I continue to develop the reductive painting process that I have started, involving what to bury and what to reveal."
"My work is always concerned with where I may be situated at a particular time and is based on notions of the body and the physical world, i.e., what is the relation between my physical body and the landscape or space that I may be inhabiting? Is the physical present or absent in these landscapes? Is this reminiscent or suggestive? I believe I react to each piece subconsciously concerning tensions felt when conceiving and developing the work."
"An enquiry into what is below the stable surface we walk on? As Walter Benjamin wrote in Angel History 'walking forwards while facing the past'."
Riding studied at the
Hereford College of Art & Design in the late 1960s and subsequently
at the Manchester College of Art & Design, both in the United
Kingdom. Following her education, she lived and painted in London
and Paris while teaching figure drawing, design and painting at
a central London college. During this period, she was included
in "Best of European Illustration," London.
Since moving to Charleston seventeen years ago, Riding has continued
to exhibit widely and to develop her own work in drawing, painting,
and printmaking. She taught at the College of Charleston as a
full-time adjunct professor of fine art, while continuing to develop
her personal work for ten years and now teaches at the Art Institute
of Charleston. She holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute,
California. Riding has shown her work in numerous solo and group
exhibits nationally in addition to receiving a number of residencies.
Riding's paintings were shown in exhibits in both 30th Parallel A Convergence of Contemporary Painting, JMOMA in Jacksonville, FL. and CYMK, at the Trans America Pyramid in San Francisco, CA, as well as at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston's School of the Arts in 2006. She had a solo shows in New Mexico and in Charleston in 2007.
The Corrigan Gallery presents art with a future instilled with intellect. Varied, thoughtful, provoking works are presented in an intimate space for the viewing pleasure of all. With 21 years of Charleston art experience, the gallery provides a fresh alternative to the traditional southern art scene. Located in the heart of the historic district, the gallery combines the charm of the old city of Charleston with a look forward with works that will become the Charleston antiques of the future.
Paintings, drawings, fine art prints, photography and sculpture are readily available for the discriminating collector. Artists represented include Manning Williams, Gordon Nicholson, Mary Walker, Kevin Bruce Parent, John Moore, Kristi Ryba, Sue Simons Wallace, Paul Mardikian, Daryl Knox, Richard Hartnett, Tim Fensch, Lynne Riding, Richard (Duke) Hagerty, Lese Corrigan and John Hull.
The gallery is a member of the Charleston Fine Art Dealers' Association and the French Quarter Gallery Association.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
843/722-9868 or visit (www.corrigangallery.com).
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