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Because
Linda Ruth Dickinson believes that work can make spiritual beliefs
manifest, her work focuses on the expression of those possibilities,
connecting
the viewer to that which may sometimes be beyond or outside usual experience
or ordinary existence. Dickinson has been an Artist Member of Artspace
in Raleigh for twenty years. Recent shows include those sponsored
by Artspace in Raleigh, North Park College in Chicago, Illinois, Meredith
College, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Springfield
Art Museum, in Springfield, Missouri, the Graham Center Museum in Wheaton,
Illinois, the Bade Museum in Berkeley, California, the Knoxville Museum
of Art in Knoxville, Tennessee, the David Adler Cultural Center in
Libertyville, Illinois, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Dickinson's
work was the subject of Chicago's Sacred Treasures, a 1996 PBS documentary
on sacred art. Dickinson's paintings can be seen in numerous
private and public collections throughout the United States. She
has been the recipient of several regional and national wards, including
a 1998 Sotheby's Award for Outstanding Work.
“My consideration of the various forms of the Sacred continues
as I search for the expression of 'the Invisible' in a synthesis
of Eastern and Western thought. Born and raised in the East to
Western parents, the traditions and values of both hemispheres inform
me. Just
recently, I've felt that the aesthetic pursuit
and struggle is a futile endeavor since beauty cannot be willed but must
be granted. Many
of my paintings display a desire to visualize horizonscapes of reductive
expanse. Flung wide strokes are held subtly within an ovoid or
circular framework. Value, hue and structure remain important formal
components but the overriding concern is the search for the expression
of a vision
reminiscent of familiar terrestrial perspective, and yet evocative of
the inner eye. The work refers to that unseen world of other principles
and existences. My work acknowledges greater mysteries and wonders to
be experienced, and suggests an inner tranquility that observes and embraces
the declaration and dialogue between Heaven and Earth.”
—Linda Ruth Dickinson
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