Ruth Root biography

ruth root

Born in Chicago, IL 1967
Lives and works in New York City
Studied at Brown University, Providence, RI (B.A., 1990) and School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL (M.F.A. 1993)

The prints I made at Tamarind are something in between my paintings and drawings. They are irregularly shaped paper cutouts inspired by the ednsity and surpise of urban space in New York City. I think of them as walking maps, suggestive of routes like that from the East Village to Chelsea and Chinatown, or from the Upper West Side to Soho and Coney Island. They are about how shapes and colors interact and move within abstract forms. These are the first lithographs I've made and I loved working with Lee Turner and Bill Lagattuta.

Selected Recent Exhibitions
2003	Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
	20th Anniversary, Welcome Home, Gavin Brown's Enterprise Corp., New York The Contemporary ArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington International Print Center New York, Fall 2003 Show, New York
2002	Abstract Redux, Danese Gallery, New York
	Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, California
	Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London
	Jump, The Painting Center, New York
2001	The Approximative, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
	Painting Show, Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles
	Ruth Root, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2000	Ruth Root, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
	Nylon Gallery, London
	Fuel Serve, Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York
	Kosmobiologie, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, New York