ABOUT RUTH
I took a ceramics class at UC Berkeley and was hooked.
In the middle of the night I woke from a dream, sat up and said “Wait, the garage!” and my studio was born.
The urns are finished with stacked beach pebbles. I have admired stacked rocks in nature.
Fortuitously found when one is unsure of the way to go, stacked rocks mark a
path in an unfamiliar landscape.
Pieces are available for sale through private appointment and at craft shows
and galleries.
My work on display with Maddie Leeds' work at rrevv gallery.
I make my own brass ribs to explore different curvature profiles. My forms are weighted at the bottom, middle, or top; each piece finding a way to hold its center.
I have found and become obsessed with the ageless black and white patterning of naked raku. I find the effect graphic and arrestingly beautiful: inky fractured drama embedded in the clay. This atmospheric firing is a collaborative dance with chance; I can control many aspects of the firing process, but never know what the end result will be.
Each piece is one of a kind.
Galleries
Objects Art and More Irvington VA 2023
Baltimore Clayworks Baltimore MD 2023
Buxton & Landstreet Gallery Thomas WV 2023
Rrevv Gallery Santa Cruz CA 2021-2022
Shows
Baltimore American Craft Council Show, 2023 Baltimore MD
Crocker Holiday Market, 2022 Sacramento CA
IS183 Art School of the Berkshires
July-September 2022, Stockbridge MA
Say Something:Tactile Voices in Clay 2022, Saratoga Clay Arts Center, Schuyler NY
Holiday Market August, December 2021, El Cerrito CA
Blue Line Arts Bazaar 2021, Roseville CA
Black Squirrel Craft Show 2019, Berkeley CA
UC Berkeley Christmas Art Sale, 2018, 2017,
Berkeley CA