Ruth Eckstein: Collaged Elements
When:
Friday, May 24, 2024 9:00a -
Sunday, Jul 21, 2024 6:00p
Friday, May 24, 2024 9:00a -
Sunday, Jul 21, 2024 6:00p
Where:
Childs Gallery
168 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art
Event website:
childsgallery.com
Abstract modernist Ruth Eckstein was renowned as a master of both painting and printmaking, and frequently pushed the boundaries of both through the incorporation of collaged elements: additions of paper cutouts, wooden pieces, rope strands, and other design embellishments. Ruth Eckstein: Collaged Elements considers these mixed media works throughout the many decades of Eckstein’s career, highlighting the artist’s adept hand at interweaving layers, texture, and color into deceptively minimalist artworks.
Of her work, Eckstein explained: “I do not like being confined to a single medium. I like the excitement that comes from switching modes. I like to ‘walk’ around an idea, deal with it in various ways.” Eckstein thus enjoyed freely moving between various media and techniques, yet often threaded ideas together into series which stretched across painting, collagraphy, etching, and screen printing. Though Eckstein created prolifically within each of these media, her finished works were very rarely easily defined as one or the other. Rather, they were amalgamations of artistic techniques, connected through themes, and ornamented with the addition of collage.
Ruth Eckstein: Collaged Elements celebrates the artist’s genre defying works, using collage to craft sculptural paintings and layered prints into compelling arrangements of dimensional abstraction. The exhibition is on view May 24 through July 21 with a reception Sunday afternoon, June 9, 2-4pm.
