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BETTE RIDGEwAY
Lives and works in santa Fe, nm Usa
 www.ridgewaystudio.com
artist contact
 bridgesfnm@aol.com
It is the challenge of the unknown which inspires my paintings. incorporate cohesive components conceptually and thematically?
There are limitless possibilities within the parameters of the Extending the perspective beyond 2D further parallels the idea of
stretched canvas. I leave the idea of adding another dimension dimensions beyond our 3D existence or an expanding universe
to painting, open to the inclusion of installation. Similar to with consideration to relativity and spacetime. I am mapping my
the integrity of scientific research, my concept of installation journeys through these natural cycles with successive layers of
should complement the paintings on the walls as well as the paint and other media. In a cartographic manner, the concept
existing architectural space. Is the building a vast, transformed transfers to physical form on the canvas. Maps are continually
factory evoking the process of creation and the studio? Would being reconstructed according to geologic time and recent history.
time-based media be appropriate (or affordable)? Could a 3D Comparable to altered borders or new names of locations, the
piece also be included? Is there overall unity? Does the show layers of paint often hide what is beneath the surface.

sPeCTrAL dAnCe I, acryLic witH resin on steeL 30x30 cm. / 12x12 in.
CrAdLe TO THe UnKnOWn, acryLic witH resin on steeL 30x30 cm. / 12x12 in. TRENDS