Road Trip!

Aldwyth on display in Chapel Hill at the Ackland Art Museum.

She does some fascinating collages and assemblages. Her brain seems to go to places similar to mine as she recreates worlds and illustrates ideas with bits of deitritus and left-over fluh. It’s definitely not for everyone. Some people prefer acrylic paintings of landscapes – seashores, mountain sunsets, and fluffy dogs – the best are painted in one sitting, during a couple of hours of free time. Me? My pieces take months and seem to never really be complete because there’s always another button, or piece of copper, driftwood, noodle or rusted fork to add. Here’s the description of 73 year old Aldwyth:

Though an outsider to the art world, Aldwyth is by no means an outsider artist. Trained at the University of South Carolina and recipient of more than a dozen artistic residencies and fellowships, her work has been shown at the South Carolina State Museum (Columbia, SC), the Allen Stone Gallery (New York, NY), the Huntsville Museum (Huntsville, AL), and The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art (Charleston, SC), among many others. She uses the history of art, ideas, and technology as both catalyst and source material. Despite her geographic isolation, Aldwyth devours information and images available to her from libraries, bookstores, the internet, and art magazines. “She is a voracious reader and inveterate collector of detritus,” says Sloan. “All of the objects and images that enter her purview become fair game as the raw material from which her works are made.”