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Once again Washington artist Mary Beth Ramsey has taken her keen attention to detail and made the leap from one media to another. Using as a springboard a large collection of documents, books, letters and photos from her family, and supplementing those with flea market ephemera, she has created carefully crafted collage narratives.
Each piece guides the viewer along a path of dots that require some participation to complete. A highly textured surface might be layered with a narrator, text scavenged from anecdotal notes of a minister grandfather, and combined with a war ration stamp. Who was this person and what passions guided his or her life?
In seeking answers, viewers are drawn to these intimate pieces for new discoveries.
Her work has garnered many awards, and she is represented in a number of private and corporate collections.
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