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September Issue 2007
Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Works by Lynne Riding
The
Corrigan Gallery in downtown Charleston, SC, will host a solo
show for Lynne Riding entitled, Paying Attention to What Happens
Between the Obvious - An Inquiry Concerning Transparency,
on view from Sept. 1 - 30, 2007.
A native of Knighton, Wales, Riding has always had a love of landscape and has found much of her inspiration from the nature that surrounds her. Her paintings are simplistic in form that reinforces the importance of line and space. By taking the work to the simplest form Riding captures it's true essence. This new body of work is minimalist abstraction yet informed by the found object or form that she has discovered in the landscape.
Riding's work deals with human frailty and impermanence. Her interests lie in the subtle undercurrents, the not so blatant, crude or obvious - the ephemeral nature of what we call reality, aligned with the dichotomy of enduring hope, that, which drives humankind forward. Says Riding, "I believe that there is validity or need for the poetic in today's society, and through my work I am concerned with current tensions, both global and personal, aligned with notions of history, erosion and evidence of use, all of which intrigue me. I continue to develop the reductive painting process that I have started, involving what to bury and what to reveal."
An exploration of ambiguity and embodiment, occurring through the pictorial contemplation of place and or emotion, Riding's work brings a refreshing simplicity to our connection to nature and reflects a hint of the explorations of the physicists into string theory. Peaceful with an undercurrent of tension that holds things together, this new body of work glows with an inner luminosity - a transparency that both fulfills and empties at the same time.
Riding studied at the Hereford College of Art
& Design between 1968 and 1970 and subsequently at the Manchester
College of Art & Design, 1970-1973 both in the United Kingdom.
Following her education, she lived and worked in undertaking various
commissions, mainly in London and Paris while also 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 fifteen years ago, Riding has continued
to exhibit widely and to develop her own work in drawing, painting,
and printmaking. Since 1998, she has taught at the College of
Charleston as a full-time adjunct professor of fine art, while
continuing to develop her personal work. She also holds an MFA
from the San Francisco Art Institute, CA. Riding has shown her
work in numerous solo and group exhibits nationally in addition
to receiving a number of residencies. Her paintings were recently
shown in two six month exhibits in both, 30th Parallel - A
Convergence of Contemporary Painting, JMOMA in Jacksonville,
FL, and CYMK, at the Trans America Pyramid in San Francisco, as
well as at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College
of Charleston's School of the Arts in 2006.
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