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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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