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Exhibitions

·      Andrew Kreps Gallery February 7 – March 16, 2008

From afar Ruth Root’s painting is not easily recognizable as painting. Its slick surface calls to mind metal, plastic, or some unknown medium of the future. Ultra thin, brightly colored, variably shaped aluminum set flush against the gallery wall creates the impression of an object naturally merging with the wall space; an organic extension that could perhaps rearrange its contours if you turned your back for a moment.

https://brooklynrail.org/2008/04/artseen/ruth-root

·      Apr 19–Aug 25, 2019 Forum Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art

The 81st installment of CMOA’s Forum series debuts a new body of work by acclaimed New York–based painter Ruth Root. With a jolt of pattern and shape, Root’s eccentric paintings dazzle and perplex with their play of geometry, color, and found images.

https://cmoa.org/exhibition/ruth-root/

·      Only Connect: Ruth Root Brings Her Delirious, History-Rich Paintings to Pittsburgh

Ruth Root showed steadily at a handful of galleries, then stepped into the museum world in 2015, with a solo show at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, in Ridgefield, followed by an exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh tin 2019.

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/ruth-root-interview-12723/