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Artists « Tut Riddick
Tut Riddick (Paint) Riddick painted in oils, her first love, for fifteen years and was encouraged to move to New York City and pursue a career. She chose to remain in Alabama and became involved with the civil rights struggle in Mobile. Her painting Grenada, which depicted African-American children being stoned in Mississippi, won an award in a Mobile Art Museum show. After a period of time, Riddick turned to printmaking, studying with Paul Feldhaus at Spring Hill College and immersed herself in printmaking etchings and lithographs. Continuing to grow, Riddick went to Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina to study silk screening before returning to Mobile to study photography with Lee Friedlander. The Birmingham Art Museum named Riddick as one of Alabama’s outstanding women artists. Riddick returned to painting studying the technique of plaster painting with Fran Merrit at Penland. Her studio exhibits plaster paintings of irises, scenic road byways, quotations and cemeteries which take the shape of their subject matter, providing depth not available on canvas. Some of her plaster paintings are carved and accommodated buttons, beads or whatever else Riddick chooses to incorporate into the completed work. A similar process with concrete has provided stepping stones and yard art at the Riddick Fun House. Riddick has collaborated with potter Charles Smith. Smith throws the pots; Riddick takes them while the clay is wet and carves a line from one of her poems onto each pot. Smith applies the initial glazing, and Riddick finishes with a glaze, experimenting with various colors. Riddick has published four books, including one about her hometown entitled The Monuments of York: A Community Scrapbook. Items in the APT AuctionRelated Linkshttp://www.theharbinger.org/xix/010306/coverartist.html |
