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Born 1967 Chicago, Illinois. Known for: Abstract painting, collage, aluminum panels.
Chicago-born New York artist, Ruth Root, works in several genres: painting on the traditional canvas supports, paper collages, and painting with enamel on thin aluminum panels. One of the unexpected... Read full biography
Chicago-born New York artist, Ruth Root, works in several genres: painting on the traditional canvas supports, paper collages, and painting with enamel on thin aluminum panels. One of the unexpected properties of Root's work is her penchant for deviating from the rectilinear shape of the support.... Read full biography
Chicago-born New York artist, Ruth Root, works in several genres: painting on the traditional canvas supports, paper collages, and painting with enamel on thin aluminum panels. One of the unexpected properties of Root's work is her penchant for deviating from the rectilinear shape of the support. She allows the perimeters of her works to be curvy and rounded, which forms a visually exciting contrast to the shifting planes of more angular color they usually inscribe. Of the works by Root in the... Read full biography
Chicago-born New York artist, Ruth Root, works in several genres: painting on the traditional canvas supports, paper collages, and painting with enamel on thin aluminum panels. One of the unexpected properties of Root's work is her penchant for deviating from the rectilinear shape of the support. She allows the perimeters of her works to be curvy and rounded, which forms a visually exciting contrast to the shifting planes of more angular color they usually inscribe. Of the works by Root in the Pillsbury collection, the enamel on aluminum is the most recent. When shown at her third solo show at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in the Spring of 2003, such works engaged the architecture of the gallery itself. As she revealed at the time of her show,... Read full biography
Chicago-born New York artist, Ruth Root, works in several genres: painting on the traditional canvas supports, paper collages, and painting with enamel on thin aluminum panels. One of the unexpected properties of Root's work is her penchant for deviating from the rectilinear shape of the support. She allows the perimeters of her works to be curvy and rounded, which forms a visually exciting contrast to the shifting planes of more angular color they usually inscribe. Of the works by Root in the Pillsbury collection, the enamel on aluminum is the most recent. When shown at her third solo show at the Andrew Kreps Gallery in the Spring of 2003, such works engaged the architecture of the gallery itself. As she revealed at the time of her show, the brightly colored forms push against each other to "create imagery suggestive of floor plans or walking maps of city neighborh... Read full biography
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Keywords (14)
Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Aluminum/Aluminium
- •Enamel Paint
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Paper as Art Media
Art Style
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art School
- •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Student
- •Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Student
Awards/Recognition
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •20/21st Centuries