Kimberly Anderson Ritchie
Kimberly Anderson Ritchie is an Associate Professor of Art at Plymouth State University and Coordinator of the Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking Programs. Ritchie received her Masters of Fine Art in Printmaking from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Ritchie's artistic practice focuses on an array of environmental issues. Her work is created through various paper and printmaking processes, installation work, and the use of natural materials. She has taught, exhibited, and attended artist residencies throughout the United States and internationally in Sweden, Iceland, Greece, and China. Ritchie is constantly researching, collecting, and exploring the natural world. Her curiosity, concern, and respect for the natural environment has directed her art practice. Ritchie's current work evolves around an in-depth study of anthropocentric environmental concerns, from air pollution affecting lichen, global climate change impacts on our natural world and human civilizations, to our dependence on plastics. The artwork is a response to the research; some works simply use the issue as a starting point while other work clearly displays the concern. Ritchie is trying to bring the beauty, mystery, and conservation of the land back into our daily focus through the image-making process. The artwork is her way of internalizing the natural world and expressing her concern. The pieces exhibited stem from New England plant species on the endangered list, abstracting the shapes and layering the images.
Kimberly Anderson Ritchie is an Associate Professor of Art at Plymouth State University and Coordinator of the Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking Programs. Ritchie received her Masters of Fine Art in Printmaking from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Ritchie's artistic practice focuses on an array of environmental issues. Her work is created through various paper and printmaking processes, installation work, and the use of natural materials. She has taught, exhibited, and attended artist residencies throughout the United States and internationally in Sweden, Iceland, Greece, and China. Ritchie is constantly researching, collecting, and exploring the natural world. Her curiosity, concern, and respect for the natural environment has directed her art practice. Ritchie's current work evolves around an in-depth study of anthropocentric environmental concerns, from air pollution affecting lichen, global climate change impacts on our natural world and human civilizations, to our dependence on plastics. The artwork is a response to the research; some works simply use the issue as a starting point while other work clearly displays the concern. Ritchie is trying to bring the beauty, mystery, and conservation of the land back into our daily focus through the image-making process. The artwork is her way of internalizing the natural world and expressing her concern. The pieces exhibited stem from New England plant species on the endangered list, abstracting the shapes and layering the images.
