TAMIE BELDUE •   SWANNANOA, NC

"While focusing on the figure and the environment as subject, these mixed media works balance a representational canon with conceptual motivations through distinct bodies of work. Accumulated perceptual experiences are integral as a continuum of information challenges choices made in each piece. I rely on these relationships to delve into prudent editing of information, allowing for divergence in clarity, yet establishing a space where an inhale could actually be palpable, all the while creating an image that exists only in imagination. At an experiential level, the viewer is presented with information that appears realistic from a distance that upon closer examination quickly dissolves into the simplicity of marks where particularity becomes abstraction."

Born in upstate New York, Tamie Beldue is a contemporary American artist focused in mixed media drawings. Beldue received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art & Design and earned her MFA at the University of Cincinnati. Beldue has exhibited extensively in the US in group and solo exhibitions, including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art Realism Biennial, Southern Ohio Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mobile Museum of Art, the Arnot Art Museum’s Re-Presenting Representation and the Fontbonne University Fine Arts Gallery. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Arnot Museum of Art, The DeYoung Museum, Howard & Judy Tullman Collection, James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary Drawings and the Sandy & Diane Besser Collection. Currently she is an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Asheville and is represented by Blue Spiral Galleries in Asheville, NC and Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.