Kathleen Ruiz
 

Dwelling
1997

Interactive spatial environment installation. Digital and mixed media.

Dimensions vary

Above: detail

Courtesy of
Sandra Gering Gallery.

  About the work

 

It is the unseen, interior structures of nature and thought that interest me: the border between incorporeal, subjective space, and physical, objective space; the duality of ideal/actual. The work seeks to question issues of restructured reality by monumentalizing the invisible or visually insignificant, which often are more powerful than what is evident. I am interested in representing volume without mass, unencumbered by gravity, in creating new types of spatial relationships, and in inventing forms, new juxtapositions, and visual scales that will redescribe the status and possibilities of a viewer.”K.R.

1952
born
1974
B.S. State University of New York at New Paltz
1980
M.A. New York University, NY
 
Associate professor, New York University, and faculty, School of Visual Arts, New York; lives in New York, NY