In this present exhibition, Kris Ruhs continues his exploration of the formal artistic concerns that have driven his personal work for over thirty years. Ruhs came of age in a New York that was dominated by color field and minimalism. Where canvas shapes were manipulated and forced off the walls by Stella and Kusama, and the old guards Pollock and Frankenthaler continued to straddle the questions of abstract expressionism and the new modernist discourses. These works are not quite canvases; not quite paintings; not quite sculptures and much like the artist, defy categorization.
In this present exhibition, Kris Ruhs continues his exploration of the formal artistic concerns that have driven his personal work for over thirty years. Ruhs came of age in a New York that was dominated by color field and minimalism. Where canvas shapes were manipulated and forced off the walls by Stella and Kusama, and the old guards Pollock and Frankenthaler continued to straddle the questions of abstract expressionism and the new modernist discourses. These works are not quite canvases; not quite paintings; not quite sculptures and much like the artist, defy categorization.