Gina Ruggeri
Gina Ruggeri’s drawings for Works on Paper range from spontaneous pen and ink sketches to large, densely worked graphite drawings made in preparation for her paintings. Layers of calligraphic lines generate complex topographies in these iconographic representations of natural objects. Mineral and vegetal forms seem animate, even sentient, and are often shown in a state of flux or decay. Their tone is at once ominous and absurd, striking an uneasy balance of the familiar and the strange.
Gina Ruggeri
Education
1996 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1992 BFA, The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1991 Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Gina Ruggeri: Immaterial Landscape, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield CT (forthcoming)
2008
Gina Ruggeri, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
Gina Ruggeri: New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2006
Gina Ruggeri: New Paintings, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2004
Gina Ruggeri: New Work, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
2003
Gina Ruggeri: New Paintings, Red Dot, New York, NY
Guest Artist Exhibition, Tenri Biennale, Tenri, Japan.
2002
Gina Ruggeri: New Work, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Works on Paper, Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Figment, Kumukumu Gallery, New York, NY
Infinitesimal Eternity, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2008
Hyper-Nature, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
The Outer Space, Pluto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Primary; William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
2007
Running Around the Pool: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Paper Now, I-space, Chicago, IL
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation; Contemporary
Art Center, New Orleans, LA
2006
Queens International 2006, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY
Refined, Lyons Wier Ortt Contemporary, New York, NY
181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The National Academy of
Design, New York, NY
3 Painters: Meghan Brady, Karen Dow, Gina Ruggeri, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2005
Selections ’05, The Lower East Side Printshop, New York, NY
Resurfaced, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
New Work, The Schoolhouse Galleries, Provincetown, MA
Honors & Awards
2009
Artist-in-Residence, Grand Canyon Nat. Park, AZ
2008
Fellowship in Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship, Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
2007
Fellowship, VCCA Artist Residency, Amherst, VA
2006
Fellowship, Yaddo Artist Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY
Fellowship, Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2005
Special Editions Fellowship, The Lower East Side Printshop.
2002
Grant Recipient, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program.
Selected artist, Guest Artist Competition, Tenri Biennale.
Publications
2009
Infinitesimal Eternity: Images Made in the Face of Spectacle, catalogue.
2008
Primary, exhibition catalogue.
2007
Running Around the Pool: Contemporary Drawing, exhibition catalogue.
New American Paintings #68, Northeast Edition.
2006
Queens International 2006, exhibition catalogue.
Rippner, Samantha, Editions ’06, Lower East Side Printshop catalogue.
3 Painters: Meghan Brady, Karen Dow, Gina Ruggeri, exhibition catalogue.
2005
Art Basel Miami Beach 2005, exhibition catalogue.
Resurfaced, exhibition brochure.
2004
Turner, Elisa. “Critic’s Pick.” The Herald (Miami, May).
Einspruch, Franklin. “Culture clash.” Street Miami (May 7–13).
New American Paintings #50, Northeast Edition.
2003
Tenri Biennale 2003, exhibition catalogue.