Artist

No matter the form, Ingrid’s work has always been largely based in the visual. After earlier studies in drawing, painting, drafting, and design, she went on to take a bachelor’s degree in architecture at the University of Toronto. For a decade she practised that profession as a licensed member of the Ontario Association of Architects. Around the time she retired from her first career, she became visual arts editor, graphic designer, and production manager for LICHEN (Literary Journal) Arts & Letters Preview. In fall 2007 Ingrid returned to her roots in visual art, beginning work on the visual counterpart to an in-progress manuscript.
 
PROJECTS                                                                                             
 
The mixed media work Fragments of The Missing weaves together her writing and visual art & design skills.
  
Fragment XVII, 2'x2', mixed media on wood, by Ingrid Ruthig         Fragment XIX, 2'x 2', mixed media on wood; text and art by Ingrid Ruthig       
  
Fragment XX       Fragment XI
 
(Shown above, clockwise from upper left: Fragments XVII, XIX, XX, and XI. All single panels are 2′x 2′, mixed media on wood; text & art by Ingrid.) 
 
The fragments are the extension of a larger literary work-in-progress, working titled “Chest Bomb Dialogues.” A departure from more formal poetry, the text cycle explores the residual effects of language that arrives as a stream of sound bites from sources as disparate as news broadcasts and personal memories. Selected fragments of the text can currently be read online at ditchpoetry.com.
 
Transferring the text to paper on wood via a process she established to suit the task, more than twenty panels have been completed. Plans for the text-image series (four of these single panels are shown above) include exhibition and a limited-edition book. Narrative Splice No.1
 
Two large tetraptychs, one of which is shown at right (titled Narrative Splice No.1, 51″ x 51″), will round out the “Fragments” series.
 
Other current projects include a polyptych work based on the haiku sequence of Ingrid’s manuscript Slipstream.
 
For further information or inquiries about the work, please contact Ingrid.
 
EXHIBITIONS                                                                                     
 
December 2009
Clarington, Ontario (details to come)
 
May 3 – June 21, 2010
at Ontario Power Generation Information Centre
1675 Montgomery Park Road
Pickering, Ontario
Open to the public Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free.
 
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Artspace on the Mezzanine, Clarington Public Library, Bowmanville, Ontario.