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Email PageSketch books of Charles Ritchie
March 23, 2007- May 26, 2007
Reception: March 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Charles Ritchie
BravinLee programs
526 W 26th StBravinLee programs is pleased to announce a new program involving the exhibition of artist's books. These works may be sketch books, limited edition bound projects or artist/writer collaborative efforts.
While BravinLee programs will continue to exhibit framed and wall mounted works on paper, this new program is absolutely necessary to highlight and privilege an artistic idiom that is essential yet under represented within the conventional gallery system.
Unique from other media, the book form allows for endless variance while remaining tied to the rules of narrative, order and finitude. Adhering to, or working against these formal constraints, the artist's book reveals the hidden potential of this familiar and beloved form. The sketchbook is a place for experimentation and the formulation of concepts, often made for the sheer pleasure and immediacy of the act, possibly on the road or in the studio. Works that follow the sequential structure of a journal, an album, a scrapbook, or that deconstruct the notions of grammar and linearity call into question the validity of delineating between "art" and "literature," positing new possibilities and revealing novel territory.
On March 23rd, we will inaugurate our artist book program.
Our first featured project will be the sketch books of Charles Ritchie. Created continuously since 1977, Ritchie's journals record the artist's direct response to his subjects. The artist's drawings find inspiration in and around his suburban home in Virginia, which is beautifully recorded over extended periods in various states and at all times of the day and night. The books themselves measure 4 ½ x 6 ½ inches and are packed with indecipherable script and drawings that are amazing, other-worldly and simultaneously utterly simple and prosaic. Many individual works are realized over months or years and their surfaces reflect the residue of processes including heavy sandings, erasures, and reworkings. The primary media used are watercolor, pen and ink, graphite, and various charcoals, chalks and crayons. Since 1992 the books have been handmade and are sewn and bound by Virginia Ritchie, the artist's wife. To date, the volumes number more than one hundred. Charles Ritchie is represented in Philadelphia by Gallery Joe.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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