Rendered on shaped, ultra-thin aluminium sheeting, Root’s paintings corrupt the idea of pre-fab form. Confined to the curvilinear borders of her canvas, Root’s componentized swatches of colour reveal an unorthodox organic quality transgressing the tradition of the grid as sigmoid fields, and allowing the seamless application of her paint to slightly bevel at the sharply cropped edges. Root’s paintings are often exhibited flush to the gallery walls, creating an allusion to decaled logotypes and an optical intervention with architectural space.
Though primarily concerned with the tautology of painting itself, Root is often inspired by the phenomenon of urban experience. Her bold industrial colours and aesthetically ordered geometries invoke cityscapes, product design, and 1960s technographics. The liminal quality of her paintings elicits dialogue with digitised media: the consummate flatness of her paintings condenses the illusions of solidity and space into virtual fields, compelling in their dynamic assertion and physically insubstantiality. - from Sacchi Gallery artist profile
RR: I am such an appreciator of historical and contemporary paintings, and also colour. I am most familiar with the canon of painting, and within that canon there are just so many paintings that I find beautiful and spectacular. I really feel like I am a person who just loves those aspects more than anything else – more than reading or thinking about ideas. I love to look at handmade things and figure out how they are made, as well as how they function. I also want to think about why there is such a need for things to be made and looked at. I love to see how artists use colour and create such a joy from colour. It seems that the things that I now find beautiful are multiple, but I do love things that are complicated and simple at the same time. - Ruth Root quote from Aldrich Museum exhibit
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