| Charles Ritchie |
(Pineville, Kentucky, 1954- )
Lives and works in Silver Springs, Maryland
Charles Ritchie's drawings are almost
all done in and around his home. For Ritchie, the physical home is
place of refuge and protection from the elements, but it is also
the space within which a person seeks spiritual, emotional and psychological
refuge. He will often sit in front of his windows and watch the transition
of light to dark, and his images are often set so that one is looking
into or out of a window in his house. These window images evoke the
historical place of the window in the history of art, the place where
the outside world meets the security of the home. In Ritchie's work,
the physical space of the home is ultimately a metaphor for the 'home'
of the inner-most self, that part of Ritchie himself where he feels
secure, safe, protected and able to move about freely. Obscure and
subtle, these are psychological self-portraits at the deepest level. |
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Self-Portrait with Night: Two Panels I, 2005
Water, gouache, and graphite on fabriano paper, 5 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.
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Self-Portrait with Night III, 2000-2002
Watercolor, litho crayon, gouache, pen, ink, an graphite on fabriano
paper, 5 1/8 x 11 7/8 in.
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Self-Portrait with Unfinished Drawing, 2005
Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on fabriano paper, 4 x 6 in. |
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