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Ruth Solomons

Ruth Solomons is an artist based in London, currently living and working in Balfron Tower through the Bow Arts Trust live-work scheme.

Reviews

Von Ribbentrop in St Ives: Art and War in the Last Resort [21 July 2011]
 

  Andrew Lanyon, son of Peter Lanyon, has curated a confounding exhibition of non-sequiturs and misappropriation of history: Not just the insidious story of Von Ribbentrop's holiday visits to St Ives before he went on to become Foreign  Read on…

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
16 July - 18 September 2011

Gilding the Lily [29 March 2011]
 

  Gilding the Lily at the Transition Gallery in Hackney explores themes of embellishment to highlight aspects of each artist's approach to artistic practice, as well as to promote a dialogue about the “decorative” and  Read on…

Transition Gallery, Hackney
19 March - 10 April 2011

The Absence of Work by Rachel Haidu [31 January 2011]
 

    The Absence of Work by Rachel Haidu is a monograph written in sympathy to the impulses behind the oeuvre of Marcel Broodthaers - a Belgian poet and artist from the mid-twentieth century. The title is introduced as having multiple  Read on…

MIT Press, 2010
1 October 2010 - 31 December 2011

Peter Lanyon [24 January 2011]
 

  St Ives is a safeguard for a significant portion of the Tate Gallery's vast collection of twentieth century British Art, specifically the work of the 'St Ives Artists', including Peter Lanyon, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Bryan  Read on…

Tate Gallery, St Ives
9 October 2010 - 23 January 2011

The Mountain Where Wales Once Lived [9 November 2010]
 

  The Mountain Where Wales Once Lived at the Union Gallery in Teesdale Street E2 provides an experience of looking at paintings that is influenced by a sense of dialogue between the artists on show. Eemyun Kang selected Alisa Margolis and  Read on…

Union Gallery, Bethnal Green
9 October - 14 November 2010

The Surreal House [18 August 2010]
 

The Brutalism of the Barbican Estate's architecture is like an awkward cousin of Modernism. Honest unabashed concrete fills your whole field of vision as you look out around the Barbican Centre to the flats and avenues and the three sky-rise towers:  Read on…

Barbican Art Gallery, London
10 June - 12 September 2010

Marek Tobolewski: Continuum in Symmetry [24 June 2010]
 

Marek's paintings are based on a particular sort of line that derives from drawing both in concept and through attention to placement upon surface: painted lines which relate directly to a mode of thinking that is particular to drawing, of gesture  Read on…

Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
8 May - 13 June 2010