Exhibition Dates: January 6 – 28, 2012
Opening Reception: First Friday Gallery Walk, January 6, 6 - 10pm

This exhibition features examples of works Dickinson has created over the years as she approaches her 25th year as a painter. From realism to surrealism, watercolor to acrylic, monochromatic to imbued with intense hues, Dickinson has employed a variety of methods to create her works including dripping, pouring, and more recently, long strokes of color, for what she refers to as her “swath” paintings. 

A self-taught artist born to midwestern American missionaries and raised on the island of Taiwan, Linda Ruth Dickinson draws on her transcultural heritage to create her paintings, which are a synthesis of eastern and western thoughts, traditions and values. Translating her visions through paint on canvas or panel, Dickinson's explorations result in abstracted imagery that is both familiar, but also beyond worldly. Dickinson's work is found in numerous private and public collections including Christ Church Lake Forest, College of Lake County, John Deere Co., GlaxoSmithKline, and Wachovia Bank.