Cheryl Ruddock
{{Short description|Canadian-American painter (born 1949)}}
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Cheryl K. Ruddock (born 1949){{Cite book |last=MacDonald |first=Colin |title=A Dictionary of Canadian Artists |date=1990 |publisher=Canadian Paperbacks |isbn=0919554199 |edition=1st |volume=7 |location=Ottawa |page=2365 |chapter=Ruddock, Cheryl K.}} is an American-born Canadian painter from Guelph, Ontario, who has exhibited widely for over 30 years. Working extensively with oil on canvas and gouache on handmade paper, she is known for using layers of colour and exploring the fragility of life, botanical themes, and empty-bodied clothing.{{Cite web |title=Cheryl Ruddock |url=https://ricagallery.com/cheryl-ruddock/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310043147/https://ricagallery.com/cheryl-ruddock/ |archive-date=2024-03-10 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=Renann Isaacs Contemporary Art}}{{Cite news |last=Shuttleworth |first=Joanne |date=20 October 2009 |title=Alma exhibit pulls in top Canadian artists |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A210103060/STND |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=Guelph Mercury |via=Gale OneFile}}{{Cite news |date=3 June 2020 |title=Guelph artist Cheryl Ruddock's latest exhibition |url=https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/video-guelph-artist-cheryl-ruddocks-latest-exhibition-2406112 |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=GuelphToday|format=video}} Her work is held in the Canada Council Art Bank and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery,{{Cite web |title=By Your Own Stars: Works from the Permanent Collection |url=https://kwag.ca/content/your-own-stars-works-permanent-collection |access-date=2024-03-16 |website=Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery}} as well as collections of the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, and the University of Guelph.{{Cite news |last=Barclay |first=Vaughan |date=5 November 2004 |title=Cheryl Ruddock's plant images show beauty in environment |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/cheryl-ruddock-s-plant-images-show-beauty/docview/355646444/se-2 |access-date=2024-03-16 |work=The Guelph Mercury|id={{ProQuest|355646444}}}}
Her recent exhibitions have included Colour Possibilities at the Renann Isaacs Contemporary, Guelph; and Harmonics at Gallery Stratford, in 2016.{{Cite news |last=Wishart |first=Scott |date=28 January 2016 |title=Three new exhibits launched at Gallery Stratford |url=http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/2016/01/27/three-new-exhibits-launched-at-gallery-stratford |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816145116/http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/2016/01/27/three-new-exhibits-launched-at-gallery-stratford |archive-date=2016-08-16 |access-date=2024-03-10 |work=Beacon Herald}} A career survey of her work, entitled Slip, was held at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, now the Art Gallery of Guelph, in 2010.Art Gallery of Guelph Exhibitions and Publications List, http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Art-Gallery-of-Guelph-Publications-List.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814063548/http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Art-Gallery-of-Guelph-Publications-List.pdf |date=2016-08-14 }}University of Toronto Libraries, Catalogue for Slip by Cheryl Ruddock, http://search.library.utoronto.ca/details?8212634{{Cite web |title=Catalogue for Slip by Cheryl Ruddock |url=https://librarysearch.library.utoronto.ca/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01UTORONTO_INST:UTORONTO&search_scope=UTL_AND_CI&tab=Everything&docid=alma991106524995506196 |access-date=2024-03-14 |website=University of Toronto Libraries |language=en}}
Early life and education
Ruddock was born in Detroit, Michigan,{{Cite news |last=Reid |first=Robert |date=6 November 1992 |title=Images of women : Four artists embrace common themes in Gallery exhibits |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/275339170 |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=Kitchener-Waterloo Record |id={{ProQuest|275339170}}}} and studied painting with Ruth Weisberg at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan.{{Cite news |last=Ferguson |first=Sheila M. |date=June 22, 1991 |title=Work of Guelph artist is language of colors |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-expositor-work-of-guelph-artist-is-l/143038867/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=The Expositor |via=Newspapers.com}} She moved to Canada in 1969, and studied art history at Carleton University in Ottawa.
She lived in various locations including Toronto, Montreal, and the Yukon, settling in Guelph in 1980. During this period of her life, she was focused on weaving. In 1986, she earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
Career
Her paintings and prints belong to the following public collections: The Canada Council Art Bank, The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, and the University of Guelph Collection. Her work is also held at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Glenhyrst, The Art Gallery of Hamilton, and the Art Gallery of Brant.{{citation needed|date= March 2024}}
Her subjects include recurring mythic symbols, such as the female form, empty clothing, and desiccated botanicals.MacClaren Art Center, Curator Dawn Owen on "Transports" by Cheryl Ruddock, http://maclarenart.com/exhibitions/transports {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920191113/http://maclarenart.com/exhibitions/transports |date=20 September 2016 }}Elora Center for the Arts, Cheryl Ruddock biography, http://www.eloracentreforthearts.ca/index.cfm?page=about_Ruddock {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806153652/http://www.eloracentreforthearts.ca/index.cfm?page=about_Ruddock |date=2016-08-06 }}
Ruddock works with oil and acrylic on canvas, including shaped canvas bound to wooden forms. Periodically, she creates monoprints with master printer Stu Oxley at the Riverside Press, in Elora, Ontario.Stu Oxley at the Art Gallery of Guelph, http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibitions-detail/distant-grounds/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405201611/http://artgalleryofguelph.ca/exhibitions-detail/distant-grounds/ |date=2016-04-05 }}
Reception
Personal life
Cheryl is married to Nicholas Ruddock, a physician and author of The Parabolist, published by Doubleday.{{Cite news |date=12 April 2023 |title=Write on! Guelph author named 1 of 5 finalists for CBC Short Story Prize |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A745269529/STND |access-date=2024-03-09 |work=Guelph Tribune |via=Gale OneFile}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.cherylruddock.ca/}}
- [https://www.guelphtoday.com/local-news/video-guelph-artist-cheryl-ruddocks-latest-exhibition-2406112 VIDEO: Guelph artist Cheryl Ruddock's latest exhibition (2020)]
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Category:21st-century Canadian women artists
Category:20th-century women painters