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THARSING
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WORKS SOLD About the Artist Lexington artist Lina Tharsing recently completed her BFA at the University of Kentucky where she received numerous awards for her work. She has shown widely in the Lexington area, most recently at Arts Place for the juried University Open and at the UK Coldstream Research Facility. In spring 2007 Tharsing's solo show, The Experiments, was housed at The Icehouse in Lexington. Through my paintings, I explore the relationship between diagrams from books and their textual information. By separating diagrams and illustrative photographs from their original contexts, I am able to give them new life. These diagramed people, plants, bones, and apparatuses are then capable of speaking freely to the viewer and acquiring new information. Parts of the new information are visual clues that I have added; some information the viewer creates when looking at each piece. Our vision often makes the world seem more tangible than it really is and we forget how it is a complex illusion, “a sheet dropped over the world’s true workings” as Marilynne Robinson so cleverly wrote.
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