# Ruth Root > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Root > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Root.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Root > Source revision: 1343419443 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Ruth Root** (born 1967 in [Chicago](/source/Chicago), USA) is an American artist based in New York. ## Education Root graduated from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University), [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island), in 1990, and completed her [MFA](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts) at [the Art Institute of Chicago](/source/The_Art_Institute_of_Chicago) in 1993. She attended a residency at the [Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture](/source/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 [Danese Gallery](/source/Danese_Gallery) in New York, *Kosmobiologie* at the [Bellwether Gallery](/source/Bellwether_Gallery) in Brooklyn, and *Son-of-a-Guston* at [Clementine Gallery](/source/Clementine_Gallery) in New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries such as [Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska](/source/Galerie_Nikolaus_Ruzicska) in Austria, [Galeria Marta Cervera](/source/Galeria_Marta_Cervera) in Spain, [Seattle Art Museum](/source/Seattle_Art_Museum), and [Galleria Franco Noero](/source/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.[4][5] *Untitled* from 2005, in the collection of the [Honolulu Museum of Art](/source/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](/source/Hirshhorn_Museum_and_Sculpture_Garden),[7] the [Honolulu Museum of Art](/source/Honolulu_Museum_of_Art),[8] the [Los Angeles County Museum of Art](/source/Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art)[9] the [Museum of Modern Art](/source/Museum_of_Modern_Art),[10] the [Seattle Art Museum](/source/Seattle_Art_Museum),[11] and the [Walker Art Center](/source/Walker_Art_Center)[12] are among the public collections holding work by **Ruth Root**. She is represented by the [Andrew Kreps Gallery](/source/Andrew_Kreps_Gallery) in New York, [Maureen Paley](/source/Maureen_Paley) in London and [Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska](/source/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 1. [Ruth Root](http://www.andrewkreps.com/rootBio.html) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070604062445/http://www.andrewkreps.com/rootBio.html) 2007-06-04 at the Wayback Machine, biography at Andrew Kreps 1. Roberta Smith, *[Art in Review: Ruth Root](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html)*, *New York Times*, May 9, 2003. 1. Holland Cotter, *[Art in Review: Ruth Root](https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/26/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html)*, *New York Times*, March 26, 1999. 1. [Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Ruth Root", *New York Times*, May 9, 2003](https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/09/arts/art-in-review-ruth-root.html) 1. [Griffin, Nora, "Ruth Root", *The Brooklyn Rail*, April 4, 2008](https://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/artseen/ruth-rootby) 1. Honolulu Museum of Art, wall label, *Untitled* by Ruth Root, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160 1. [hirshhorn.si.edu](http://hirshhorn.si.edu/search.asp?search=ruth+root) 1. *Untitled*, 2005, accession TCM.2009.23.160 1. ,[lacma.org](http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=133393;type=101) 1. ["Ruth Root"](http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=25967) 1. ["seattleartmuseum.org"](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). Archived from [the original](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) on 2012-04-02. Retrieved 2011-05-04. 1. [walkerart.org](https://archive.today/20120708163809/http://collections.walkerart.org/search.html) ## External links - Frances Richard, *[Ruth Root - New York - hard-edge abstraction](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_1_42/ai_108691820/)*, *ArtForum*, September 2003. - Mario Naves, *[A Headstrong Loner's Paradox: Transformations Fixed in Time](https://web.archive.org/web/20081007092107/http://www.observer.com/node/47553)*, *The New York Observer*, May 18, 2003. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ruth Root](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Root) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Root?action=history)). 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