Ruth Boerefijn is a site-specific artist who has created installations on location in Hafnarfjörður (Iceland), Jackson Hole (WY), and Crater Lake (OR), and was a visiting artist at MacDowell and the DeYoung Museum. She works with simple materials that go through a process of hand-working and transformation, so that they contain a history of experiences. In her recent work, her vocabulary of materials comes alive in conversation with the objects and lived-in spaces around them.
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Ruth Boerefijn
Discipline:
Visual Art – sculpture
Region: Oakland, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2007
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ruthboerefyn.com
All a Round
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Alexander
Ruth Boerefijn worked in the Alexander studio.
Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…