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Donna Ruff
Daniel, 2017
Estimated Value: $4,000
Archival pigment print
27 x 22 inches
Unframed
Edition 1/4
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of Rick Wester Fine Art, Inc.
This work is one of a series done by using a cut newspaper page as a "positive" to create a photogram on expired B/W photo exposure paper placed in the sun. The paper develops as two colors, which would change to black and white if chemically developed and fixed. But instead, the exposed image is scanned to capture it permanently. Different batches turn different colors, and once they are scanned and printed, the papers are pieced together (not layered) and cut by hand.
About the Artist:
Donna Ruff
Donna Ruff lives and works in Miami. Ruff received an MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, in 2020. She combines a social justice practice with her work, which is focused on current news stories, using images and text from newspapers and historical documents. Selected solo exhibitions include "utopia" at Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, 2000; "Extraño," Laundromat Art Space, Miami, 2019; and "Migrant Series," Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, 2017. Selected group exhibitions include "Spheres of Meaning," Frost Museum of Art, Miami, 2019; Florida Biennial, Hollywood Arts and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, 2018; and "Times," Flag Foundation, New York, 2017. Her work is in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Morgan Library, and the Yale Art Gallery among others. She was awarded a residency at the Deering Estate in 2019. Other residencies include the Santa Fe Art Institute, 2008-2009, and the Vermont Studio Center in 1997.
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