Ruth Root
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Ruth Root (born 1967 in Chicago, USA) is an American artist based in New York.
Education
Root graduated from Brown University, Rhode Island, in 1990, and completed her MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1993. She attended a residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994.[http://www.andrewkreps.com/rootBio.html Ruth Root] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604062445/http://www.andrewkreps.com/rootBio.html |date=2007-06-04 }}, biography at Andrew Kreps
Work
Her work includes paintings on canvas, paintings on thin, irregularly shaped pieces of aluminiumRoberta Smith, [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html Art in Review: Ruth Root], New York Times, May 9, 2003. and small painted paper pieces.Holland Cotter, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/26/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html Art in Review: Ruth Root], New York Times, March 26, 1999.
Root has participated in a number of exhibitions including Abstract Redux at the Danese Gallery in New York, Kosmobiologie at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, and Son-of-a-Guston at Clementine Gallery in New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries such as Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska in Austria, Galeria Marta Cervera in Spain, Seattle Art Museum, and Galleria Franco Noero, in Torino, Italy.
The artist's paintings are primarily hard-edge abstractions, consisting of rectangles and other simple shapes in a limited brightly colored palate. In paintings from the early 2000s, eyes or a cigarette was added to these otherwise abstract canvases.[https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Ruth Root", New York Times, May 9, 2003][https://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/artseen/ruth-rootby Griffin, Nora, "Ruth Root", The Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2008] Untitled from 2005, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, is an example of this phase of Root's oeuvre. A pair of eyes mysteriously peer out from a dark blue expanse.Honolulu Museum of Art, wall label, Untitled by Ruth Root, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160 The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=ruth+root hirshhorn.si.edu] the Honolulu Museum of Art,Untitled, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=133393;type=101 lacma.org] the Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web | url=http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=25967 | title=Ruth Root}} the Seattle Art Museum,{{Cite web |url=http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/SAMcollection/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=ruth%20root&quicksearch=ruth%20root&newprofile=objects&newvalues=1&newstyle=text |title=seattleartmuseum.org |access-date=2011-05-04 |archive-date=2012-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402220026/http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/SAMcollection/code/emuseum.asp?style=browse¤trecord=1&page=search&profile=objects&searchdesc=ruth%20root&quicksearch=ruth%20root&newprofile=objects&newvalues=1&newstyle=text |url-status=dead }} and the Walker Art Center[https://archive.today/20120708163809/http://collections.walkerart.org/search.html walkerart.org] are among the public collections holding work by Ruth Root. She is represented by the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, Maureen Paley in London and Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska in Salzburg.
Awards
- 1996 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-Atlantic Grant in Painting
- 1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
References
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External links
- Frances Richard, [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_42/ai_108691820/ Ruth Root - New York - hard-edge abstraction], ArtForum, September 2003.
- Mario Naves, [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007092107/http://www.observer.com/node/47553 A Headstrong Loner's Paradox: Transformations Fixed in Time], The New York Observer, May 18, 2003.
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Category:School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:21st-century American painters