Courtesy of
Sandra Gering Gallery.

Kathleen Ruiz’s works combine the tangible and the ethereal. Her prints combine handmade papers with computer-generated objects, and her installation works combine carved bluestone quarried near her summer home with the disembodied spaces of the virtual worlds she constructs. These virtual or immersive environments consist of impossible and mundane views and objects the viewer can approach, enter, and interact with. Images of cellular mitosis inhabit geometric forms floating through space; symbols, architectural elements, and home furnishings jostle for space. The feeling is one of temporal disjunction and quiet contemplation. The electronic element of the work is complemented by the granite bench the viewer sits upon while interacting with the immersive environment.