Ruth Root

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Ruth Root (b. 1967, Chicago, US) is an artist based in New York. She 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]

She specialises in abstract paintings: geometric colour blocks in enamel on precision-shaped aluminum panels.

Her work has appeared in a number of exhibitions including Abstract Redux at the Danese Gallery in New York, Kosmobiologie at the Bellwether Gallery in Brooklyn, and Son-of-a-Guston at Clementine Gallery in New York. She has exhibited internationally at galleries such as Galerie Ruzicska in Austria, Galeria Marta Cervera in Spain, Seattle Art Museum, and Galleria Franco Noero, in Torino, Italy.

She is represented by the Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York and Maureen Paley in London.

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  1. ^ Ruth Root, biography at Andrew Kreps

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