Nasher Public: Linda Ridgway on ‘Herself’

Linda Ridgway speaks about her Nasher Public Installation, ‘Herself,’ with Nasher Curator Dr. Catherine Craft and the Nasher Visitor Experiences team. Their conversation touches on the origins of her installation; the many references in her work to her friends, family, and poetry; and how this body of work draws on her experiences over the months of the pandemic and its aftermath.

Linda Ridgway (出生 1947 in Jeffersonville, Indiana) creates poetic bronze sculptures that convey both autobiographical and cultural imagery. Although educated as a printmaker, Ridgway continues to experiment with the limits of various media to create work that remains intimate regardless of scale. Ridgway’s bronzes emerge from a two-dimensional template to become new spatial objects that elucidate the artist’s personal experiences. These works span the themes of femininity, tradition, and heritage while establishing their own permanence through the medium of bronze. Ridgway juxtaposes the delicacy of the textures of lace and crochet work with the monochromatic and industrial fortitude of metalwork. While some of her works emphasize a reverence for domesticity, Ridgway also uses the translation of knit pieces into bronze sculptures to underscore a disintegration of memory. Ridgway extracts the artisanship of crochet work to develop a history of herself as an artist in the enduring medium of bronze.
Ridgway received an MFA from Tulane University, and a BFA from the Louisville School of Art. She has participated in various solo and group exhibitions including Linda Ridgway: A Survey, Poetics of Form at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, 休斯顿, Texas and the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas in 1997-98; and One Hundred Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas in 2002. Herself is on view August 19 – September 12, 2021

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