Thacher Gallery at University of San Francisco
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Revelations: Selected work by Eleanor Dickinson
"Revelations: Selected work by
Eleanor Dickinson" will open this season's line up of exhibitions at
the 
University
of San Francisco's Thacher Gallery located in the Gleeson Library/Geschke
Center from August 21, 2000 to October 15, 2000. A public reception with
the artist will be held at the gallery on September 13 from 4:00 pm to 6:00
pm. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public. (right:
Sarah and Son)
"Revelations"
brings together three of Dickinson's well-known series: "Revival!,"
"Mark of the Beast," and "Crucifixions." Her drawings
in the earlier "Revival!" and "Mark of the Beast" series
explore the revivalist culture and beliefs of the Appalachian region. "Crucifixions,"
a recent series of pastel portraits on black velvet, uses the biblical metaphor
of the cross to examine the burdens that people carry through life. With
her subjects as collaborators, the models told their stories of suffering
to the artist as 
they
were drawn. Through an extreme foreshortened perspective, Dickinson places
the viewer "at the foot of the cross" of these every day people.
(left: Crucifixion of Michael, 1990, USF Permanent Collection)
Dickinson
is acknowledged as one of the country's strongest figure drawing artists.
Her work allows her to be both artist and social historian revealing religious
experience along side human experience. Her drawings have exhibited nationally,
with a recent solo exhibition at the Tennessee State Museum; she has received
dozens of awards, including the 1995 "President's Award" from
the National Women's Caucus for Art. She is a painting-drawing professor
at the California College of Arts and Crafts. (left: Crucifixion
of Eleanor; right: Mark of the Beast)
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