Ruth Kalman tells a tale in shape, color, and image. Her body of works taps into narrative elements of people, objects, landscapes, time and place, but unlike the written word, which is the guise of thought, here we see color serve as the guise of the shapes’ outline. The images in her paintings, their application on the painting’s surface, become ‘literary elements’, or rather postcards and souvenirs from a physical, mental, lifetime journey. Memory, experience, emotion, place, and object combine together in thick brushstrokes and intense colors, exuding freedom as well as discipline. Read more
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