Kimberly E Ruth

Current Work

2011-05-08T18:41:00.001-07:00

Current WorkThe following are two videos in a series of work dealing with issues of truth, performance and affect. Through the translation of text, including movie scripts and personal memoirs, actors and actresses re-enact various scenes often in the form of storytelling. The subjects in "Sex, Lies and Videotape: The Script" repeatedly act out a single scene. Each performance is subtly different

2011-05-08T18:28:00.001-07:00

The White AlbumThe White AlbumHD video projection10 min 12 sec

2011-05-08T17:39:00.000-07:00

Sex, Lies, and Videotape: The Script (working title)Sex, Lies and Videotape: The Script (working title)HD video projection 12 min 22 sec

2011-03-30T19:41:00.001-07:00

also, see archival writing section (on the right side of the page) for writing project.

2011-03-30T19:38:00.000-07:00

images from current photo project. description will come later.18 in x 16 inUntitled (1922)inkjet archival printUntitled (1922)18 in x 16 ininkjet archival print

2011-03-16T19:28:00.001-07:00

Problem of [representation] experience is intangible.

2011-03-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

Here is a link to a super short clip of my video The White Albumhttp://vimeo.com/channels/overthewall#20727489

Catherine Lord

2011-03-10T19:36:00.000-08:00

I recently read an amazing article by Catherine Lord titled The Art of Losing. It was a beautiful, detailed description of the relationship between Lord and her ex-lover. The material was based on photographs taken by and/or of the couple. 28Flower alert, we used to say on walks around the neighborhood or in the country, a signal to look, to cradle, to inhale. A code, our

Pseudo Documentary

2011-02-20T09:08:00.001-08:00

I am in the workings of shooting for a new video. The project started out with an interest in the emotional attachment to fact vs. fiction. In my first shoot, I video taped myself telling a story in the first person. The story was not my own, but a constructed narrative based off of the character Jenny from the award-winning 1994 film Forrest Gump. It came of as a documentary-style interview. As

A manifesto (kind of)

2011-02-20T07:46:00.000-08:00

or maybe it's an artist statement...My painting is about what I can do with paint. It is about my position, in a rapid world, as a painter. A painter of objects. It is about my relationship with the canvas and the thing I am painting. It is about intimacy and time. It is about the act of painting. It is about a reduction of sorts, like a minimalist sculpture. It is about the object, the wooden

2011-02-18T09:13:00.000-08:00

new paintings:sales receipt, 2011oil on canvas14 in x 16 intypewriter, 2011oil on canvas16 in x 12 in

To quote Bowie without quoting Bowie

2011-02-15T19:10:00.000-08:00

After using this blog as a portfolio site for a number of years, I decided to take advantage of its intended purpose and use it as a platform to organize my thoughts. My initial desire for this electronic transformation is due to the amount of underdeveloped information that is freely floating through my head. It cannot self-sustain, not in a way that is productive to me. I

2011-01-16T09:36:00.000-08:00

Here is a list of some past poetry publicationshttp://www.alicebluereview.org/ten/ten.html http://www.haggardandhalloo.com/2010/04/05/living-room-153/ http://elimae.com/2009/12/Dare.html http://elimae.com/2009/10/Garage.html http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue125thirdgradetrip.html http://elimae.com/2009/08/Home.html http://www.elimae.com/2009/04/Blurry.html http://www.elimae.com/2009/

Paintings 2010 (Installation)

2011-01-06T13:17:00.001-08:00

installation viewbasement window oil on canvas12'' x 16 ''(left) blocked window oil on canvas19'' x 16''(right) kitchen towel oil on canvas18'' x 16''(left) kitchen towel oil on canvas18'' x 16''(right) painted bricks oil on canvas14" x 16"(left) dressoil on canvas16" x 14"(right) chipped porch oil on canvas14'' x 16''(left) wooden box oil on canvas16'' x 18"(right) dress oil on canvas18" x 17"

Paintings 2010 (Closeups)

2011-01-06T13:05:00.000-08:00

basement windowoil on canvas12'' x 16 ''chipped porchoil on canvas14'' x 16''painted bricksoil on canvas14" x 16"kitchen toweloil on canvas18'' x 16''blocked windowoil on canvas19'' x 16''wooden boxoil on canvas16'' x 18"dressoil on canvas18" x 17"

Paintings (summer 2010)

2010-08-13T11:19:00.000-07:00

Mike, 2010oil on canvasLenny, 2010oil on canvasRob, 2010oil on canvas

Poetry Publications

2010-02-07T16:06:00.000-08:00

I recently began getting a number of my poems published. The links to such publications can be found on the right side of this blog.

Guns

2010-02-07T13:21:00.000-08:00

My intention is to cover a whole wall with these images (base photographs are AP and New York Times images from Iraq). As of now I have approx. 120.Each square is 5.5 in x 5.5 in.-plexiglass-handmade paper-digital prints

Sewn Objects

2009-04-28T21:04:00.000-07:00

Sew: To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together.When you repair a hole in a shirt or other piece of clothing, you make it invisible. I related this idea of hiding, or false presentation, to actions that similarly disguise the truth, such as censorship. In "Sewn Objects" I purposefully disguised objects/situations and made them appear to have

Human Form

2009-04-17T08:11:00.000-07:00

The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace-Friedrich Nietzsche

Black is a name...

2009-02-22T08:45:00.000-08:00

Black is a nameDigital Print60 in x 45 in

Street Photography

2008-09-21T16:45:00.000-07:00

Thesis II

2008-09-21T16:43:00.000-07:00

Native American Documentary

2008-09-21T13:40:00.001-07:00

Man with a movie camera

2008-09-15T20:02:00.000-07:00

The following video is footage taken from Dziga Vertov's "Man with a Movie Camera," a silent film documenting the daily lives of people in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. The footage is recut, reassembled, and intertwined with some of my own footage, which transforms Vertov's story into a new dialogue that shows the close connection between femininity of the past and present and everyday