Documentary Spotlights RuthΓÇÖs Art
11 January 2021 Documentary Spotlights Ruths Art
A documentary profile of award-winning printmaker and Class of 64 Endowed Professor of Art and Architecture Nicholas Ruth appears this month on the Rochester area public television station.
Class of 64 Endowed Professor of Art and Architecture Nicholas Ruthis featured in a documentary Now This whichbegan airing periodically on WXXIon Jan. 9.
A counterpart to his most recent exhibit,the film highlights Ruths inspiration, vision and artistic process as he composes images of cell towers, billboards and signs that populate empty landscapes.
The film illuminates Ruths exhibit, This Way, which opened at Colleen Buzzard Studio in Rochester, N.Y., in early 2020, though has been closed to visitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This Way includes several new series of print media using a variety of techniques. The large-scale etchings, screenprints and low-relief images using elements of collage, sculpture and printmaking are the result of Ruths collaborations with regional artists and HWS students.
Ruths work has appeared in more than 100 exhibitions nationally and internationally, including shows in China, France, Ireland, Poland, Portugal and South Korea. He was named a semifinalist for the Print Centers 92nd Annual International Competition in 2018, earning theBombmagazine award, and his print Looker was featured in the31stannual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition at McNeese State University. A dynamic professor and mentor, he teaches courses in drawing, painting and printmaking.
Ruth earned a B.A. in studio art from Pomona College, interned at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and earned an M.F.A. in painting from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. At HWS, he has been recognized with the HWS Faculty Teaching Award as well as the HWS Faculty Prize for Scholarship. Ruth can be reached atnruth@hws.eduor online atwww.nicholashruth.com.