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Museums page for Ruth Root ((Born 1967)), known for Abstract painting, collage, aluminum panels. Showing 5 museum collections and exhibitions.
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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
Ruth Root - Artist Info
About Ruth Root: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (5)
All MuseumsLos Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, WA 98101Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403