Charles Ritchie: Drawings from a Room presents watercolor and ink drawings of suburban Maryland — neighbors' homes, yards, and lived-in rooms — built through sustained attention over years, even decades. Light is Ritchie's essential subject: a slant of afternoon sun, a particular season, a temporary state that passes and must be waited for again. By the time a drawing is finished, the site may have changed entirely — trees gone, houses altered — leaving each work an abstracted accumulation of many different experiences and moments. Their intimate scale invites close looking, transforming the ordinary into something of quiet wonder.
