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September Issue
2008
GREGG Museum of Art & Design in
Raleigh, NC, Features Works by Charles Ritchie
The GREGG Museum of Art & Design at NC State University in Raleigh, NC, is presenting the exhibit, From the Inside Looking Out: The Journals, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie, on view through Oct. 8, 2008.
The drawings, prints and sketchbooks of Charles Ritchie find inspiration in the artist's suburban home. Small in size and created in series, the drawings employ watercolor, graphite and pen and ink. The prints are based on the artist's drawings, and engage the techniques and materials of printmaking to reinvent the image. The artist's sketchbooks have been kept continuously since 1977 and chart his creative process.
Ritchie is extremely focused as he works. His dreams inform this work and he rises every morning at 4am to have the time and solitude to paint. A number of his paintings are based on the view outside his dining room table. Since he is drawing from nature it might take several years to complete a piece. As tree blooms and leafs come and go he has to set aside work that isn't finished before the change occurs. There is a cycle to his work that draws the view in to take closer look at his intricate and detailed work.
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the Museum at 919/515-3503 or visit (www.ncsu.edu/gregg).
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