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.
Disciplines:
Visual Arts – sculpture
Ruth Boerefijn
All a Round
Making My Way
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Making My Way
Making My Way
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with Ruth Boerefijn
Face to Face
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More of Face to Face
Conversations
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Conversations
Studios
Alexander
Ruth Boerefijn worked in the Alexander studio.
Funded through the generous support of Elizabeth Alexander, this studio was built in memory of her late husband, the renowned portrait painter John White Alexander (1856-1915). Originally designed as a visual art gallery, Marian MacDowell persuaded Elizabeth that the space would better serve the arts if commissioned as a visual…