resume and statement of fine artist textile art. Featuring selected exhibitions & biography

1. 1645 Paulding Ave, Bronx, NY 10462 tel: 718 409 1137 email: rmmarshall@earthlink.net
website: ruthmarshall.com
ruth marshall
selected exhibitions
2009
BIG CATS, Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Berlin Germany)
SMALL CATS DEBUT, Scope Art Fair Miami (Miami, FL)
BIG CATS & SNAKE SERIES, Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton NJ)
BIG CATS, solo exhibit at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
2008
SNAKE SERIES, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
(Scottsdale, AZ)
BIG CATS, San Jose Museum (San Jose, CA)
SNAKE SERIES, Indiana State Museum (Indianapolis IN)
IVY, Rupert Ravens Contemporary (Newark, NJ)
2007
BIG CATS, Contemporary Instanbul Art Fair (Istanbul,Turkey)
IVY, Longwood Art Gallery (Bronx NY)
SNAKE SERIES, Museum of Art and Design (New York, NY)
2006
SNAKE SERIES, Contemporary Instanbul Art Fair (Istanbul,Turkey)
SNAKE SERIES, IVY, Scope Art Fair Miami (Miami, FL)
NEW WORK, solo exhibit at Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)
SNAKE SERIES, Massachusetts College of Art (Boston, MA)
RESIN SCULPTURE, Bridge Art Fair (Chicago, IL)
SNAKE SERIES, Scope Art Fair (New York, NY)
collections
The Henry Buhl Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Yale University,
Columbia University, Brian Muller Collection & David Stark Collection
among others.
Ruth has been represented by Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery since 2002.

2. 1645 Paulding Ave, Bronx, NY 10462 tel: 718 409 1137 email: rmmarshall@earthlink.net
website: ruthmarshall.com
ruth marshall
Artist Statement: About the Artwork
"My art is related to and bound by a fascination with animals. In essence
the work is a synthesis of concepts relating to wildlife conservation and
visually interpreting natural animal forms.
Exploring the precarious balance of our human relationship to nature
reacquaints society to the exotic world that we are in danger of losing. My
work aims to communicate all the inherent drama in nature's loss, to
respect the impressive will of the wild kingdom, and to fuel the search for
survival.
The twenty-first century is gripped by the predicament of habitat loss
and species decline. There is an urgent desire in me to say new things
about this disappearing world and to contribute to the efforts to help wild
animals and wild places endure." - R.Marshall 2009
About the Artist
Ruth Marshall was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. She studied
for a BA in sculpture and printmaking at Phillip Institute of Technology,
where diversity and independence of study was encouraged. Two years
after completion Marshall was awarded the Anne & Gordon Samstag
International Visual Arts Scholarship, a generous sponsor in promoting
overseas education of Australian visual art students. In 1993, Marshall
began a Masters degree in sculpture at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Upon
graduation, she joined the team at the Wildlife Conservation Society,
more commonly known as the Bronx Zoo.
For over a dozen years, Ruth Marshall worked as an exhibit sculptor at
the Bronx Zoo. This experience shaped the direction of her work and
provided opportunity to study first hand a world renown animal collection
and to become more familiar with conservation strategies relating to
different species.
Animal conservation is at the very heart of Ruth Marshall's artwork.
Marshall was the very first artist to formally be asked to Dam, Stuhltrager
Gallery, back in the early days of 2002.