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About:
Artist Charlotte Riley-Webb
BFA, Cleveland
Institute of Art, Ohio
Charlotte
Riley-Webb moved with her family to Cleveland, Ohio as a
toddler, where she was educated in the public school system.
She earned her B.F.A. degree from The Cleveland Institute of
Art and has continued her education throughout the years.
Contemporary
realistic with an abstract flair is how she described her
representational works. This rhythmic style with bright bold
colors, easily translated into the illustrations for three
children's books Rent Party Jazz and Sweet Potato Pie, for New
York publisher, Lee and Low and The Entrance Place of Wonders,
published by Abrams Books in January 2006. In it, Charlotte
invites the reader to enjoy the rhythms of her paintings as
you glide through what she feels was the most exciting
cultural period for African Americans, The Harlem Renaissance.
In it is documented poems written for children during the
period.
An evolution
of study, growth and expansion has led Charlotte to her new
and present genre, abstract art. She began the process by
studying with two of this country's premier abstract artist,
John T. Scott of New Orleans and Moe Brooker of Philadelphia.
This opportunity aided her in finding her own "abstract
niche" and helped propel the career, which she had been
hinging on for many years, even in her figurative works.
Charlotte has
recently become a 2006 Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award
recipient, further validating her current genre. Among her
associations and gallery affiliations are; The National
Association of Women Artists, New York and its local Florida
chapter, The Degas Pastel Society, LA, Gallery Romain, Chicago
and Premier Arts, Atlanta.
"Transitioning
into Abstract art has been a natural, liberating experience
for me as an artist. I have been exploring the relationships
between line, space, texture, color, composition and emotional
awareness in creating these new works. I've been deciphering
how to make these elements relevant to my art, working in
acrylics, oils and pastels. I feel that abstract art
represents the depths of ones artist soul. From the process, I
am truly exploring my latitude as an artist."
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