​Ruth’s practice can be characterized as having a split personality. Her primitive side is deeply rooted in Art Brut, embracing awkwardness, asymmetry, strange proportions, and found materials from the streets of NYC or her dad’s studio. It draws from the instinctive energy of outsider artists such as Jean Dubuffet, William Hawkins, and Niki de Saint Phalle. Her abstract paintings move in another direction; they are expansive, saturated with color, and unapologetically beautiful, exploring atmosphere and emotion with influences including Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, and Cy Twombly. She moves between these personalities freely, without feeling the need to resolve them, carrying a sense of humor and reverence.