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Abstracts
& Mixed Media
by Ruth Kramedjian
January 3, 2010 - February 28, 2010

Ruth
is a graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in
drawing and painting and art history. She has worked with
fabric, designing and making original quilts; she has worked
in metal, designing jewelry in silver and gold; her photographic
work is represented in this show with a series of black and
white infrared prints; and in recent years she has returned
to abstract painting and the art of collage or mixed media.
In
her artist's statement, Ruth says:
Rhythmic
cycles chart the course of our days. Both mundane and magnificent,
they present themselves in the powerful circle of community
life, the changing of the seasons, the movement from dawn
to dusk and back again to light. Ethereal, concrete, and universal,
they frame our lives and they give direction to my spiritual
quest to find meaning in my world through art making. The
grid and its counterpart, the circle, often serve as a frame
for these cycles, and my emotional response to the inherent
rhythms finds expression in my mark making. The short view,
the long view, the universal view - from these, I examine
my world.
Ruth
is an avid gardener and lives with her husband, Armand, on
the Chattahoochee River in Vinings. Ruth can be contacted
at 770-384-1122 or via e-mail at rrpk2@yahoo.com.
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Doll
Collection
by Renée Coleman
January 3, 2010 - February 28, 2010

Renée
Coleman is originally from Rocky Mount N.C., and has resided
in the Smyrna/Marietta area for the past 17 years.
She received
her Bachelors of Science Degree in Art Education from North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, in 1989.
She taught Art for a few years and quickly realized that teaching
is a calling and "it's NOT calling me".
She has
always been a creative person and an admirer of beauty. She
loved dolls as a child, but unlike most little girls that
loose interest in them around age twelve, she didn't. At age
16, her grandmother would ask "Aren't you too old to
play with dolls?"
She started
collecting dolls about 15 years ago, and in the past five
years more seriously. She would buy dolls and store them under
her bed. (closet collector). One Saturday morning while driving
past the Cobb County Civic Center, she read the marquee that
said "Doll Show". She went in to find hundreds of
other collectors that shared the same passion for doll collecting
as she did.
Finally
she could take herdolls out and display them...it's okay.
Since then she has enjoyed learning more about doll collecting.
Some of her favorites are the Dolls of the World Series, Treasures
of Africa Series, Lucille Ball, and the Coat Collection.
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