Ruth Root

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Untitled by Ruth Root, 2005, Honolulu Museum of Art

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.[1]

Work[]

Her work includes paintings on canvas, paintings on thin, irregularly shaped pieces of aluminium[2] and small painted paper pieces.[3]

Root has participated in a number of exhibitions including Abstract Redux at the in New York, Kosmobiologie at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, and Son-of-a-Guston at in New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries such as in Austria, in Spain, Seattle Art Museum, and , 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.[4][5] 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.[6] The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,[7] the Honolulu Museum of Art,[8] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art[9] the Museum of Modern Art,[10] the Seattle Art Museum,[11] and the Walker Art Center[12] are among the public collections holding work by Ruth Root. She is represented by the in New York, Maureen Paley in London and 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[]

  1. ^ Ruth Root Archived 2007-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, biography at Andrew Kreps
  2. ^ Roberta Smith, Art in Review: Ruth Root, New York Times, May 9, 2003.
  3. ^ Holland Cotter, Art in Review: Ruth Root, New York Times, March 26, 1999.
  4. ^ Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Ruth Root", New York Times, May 9, 2003
  5. ^ Griffin, Nora, "Ruth Root", The Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2008
  6. ^ Honolulu Museum of Art, wall label, Untitled by Ruth Root, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160
  7. ^ hirshhorn.si.edu
  8. ^ Untitled, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160
  9. ^ ,lacma.org
  10. ^ "Ruth Root".
  11. ^ "seattleartmuseum.org". Archived from the original on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
  12. ^ walkerart.org

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