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June Issue 2008
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, Features Works
by Lisa Pearce and Linda Ruth Dickinson
Artspace in Raleigh, NC, will present two new exhibits on view from June 6 - 28, 2008, including: Clear Color, featuring works by Lisa Pearce in the Lobby Gallery and New Work, featuring works by Linda Ruth Dickinson, on view in the Upfront Gallery.
Lisa Pearce
Lisa Pearce's exhibition, Clear Color, is an intentional departure from the mixed media sculptural forms she has been working on over the past several years. This exhibition focuses on glass its translucent color, texture, and malleability from semi-liquid to solid states. Using fusing, slumping, and lamp-work glass techniques, Pearce's interest is process-driven. The work, simplistic, non-objective forms, communicate the medium's metamorphosis, ending when the molten material cools.
Pearce is a mixed media artist working in Raleigh. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Meredith College where she teaches Sculpture and 3-D Design.
Linda Ruth Dickinson
Over a year ago, Linda Ruth Dickinson began
creating new work utilizing vertical bars or swathes of hue (or
absence of hue). The work, expressing both resonances and dissonances,
began as a commission for the collection at the Umstead Hotel,
Cary, NC. However, over the past several months, Dickinson has
continued working with this format to explore time, music, motion,
biology, and faith commemoration. For Dickinson, the work is more
about the feelings transmitted through the color bars as
a way of describing the existence or truth of a subject - rather
than a representation of the specific subject itself.
Continuing the tradition of her work over the past several years,
Dickinson is still focusing on how to present intuitive emotion
using the parameters of color and minimized line, without the
use of much representational imagery. This search is an
outgrowth of a two decade-long personal tradition of drawing inspiration
from historically revered texts, as well as from the fabric of
nature. Dickinson's search seeks to reflect the truths in those
ancient illuminations through a contemporary sensibility, suspending
cognitive reason for a simplified and integrated core understanding
that supersedes and transcends the topical. Her goal is to create
art that expresses what is essential and common to all human experience.
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 Collectors
Gallery, Raleigh, NC; Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill, NC; Broadhurst
Gallery, Pinehurst, NC; The Little Gallery, Smith Mountain Lake,
VA; Soho Myriad Gallery, Atlanta, GA, and the Dean Day Gallery,
Houston, TX.
Dickinson's work is in numerous public and private collections including Glaxo Smith Kline Inc.; Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.; SAS; John Deere Co.; Progress Energy; Tri Properties, Inc.; UNC-Chapel Hill Henry-Copeland Art Collection; Kennedy Covington Lobdell & Hickman LLP; Fidelity Investments; Credit Suisse; Marriott Resort, Newport Beach, CA; Essex House, NYC; and the Umstead Hotel Cary, NC.
Artspace, a thriving visual art center located
in downtown Raleigh, brings the creative process to life through
inspiring and engaging education and community outreach programming,
a dynamic environment of over 30 professional artists studios,
and nationally acclaimed exhibitions. Approximately 95 artists
hold professional memberships in the Artspace Artists Association.
Thirty-five of these artists have studios located at Artspace.
Artspace is supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, the
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, the Raleigh Arts
Commission, individuals, corporations, and private foundations.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery
listings, call Artspace at 919/821-2787 or visit (www.artspacenc.org).
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