Tamie Beldue

Exist

Graphite, watercolor, encaustic

About the artist

Tamie Beldue

Through drawing, compiled layers of diligent perception are rendered to depict an image of a complex individual. The model’s independent thoughts and feelings are expressed through their body language in either fleeting or gradual changes. Perhaps a transitory interruption in the rise and fall of breath, or the disappearance of a bone that was once pressing against the skin – these subtle nonverbal clues, instabilities, and movements are recorded over time to build an illusory space of breathable air in which an inhale could be palpable. I, as well, also approach each juncture with fluctuating perceptions demonstrating that reality is fundamentally immeasurable; therefore, subjects are depicted as economically as possible, leaving ambiguities in edges and areas suggesting slight movements and gestures.

Born in upstate New York, Tamie Beldue is a contemporary American artist focused on 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 Professor & Department Chair at the University of North Carolina Asheville and is represented by Blue Spiral Galleries in Asheville, NC, and Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia, PA.