Pond Flowers I
drypoint and chine colle
5" x 11"

Lily Pond
drypoint & chine colle
5" x 8"

Overprinted Flowers
monotype
9" x 12"

Shadows and Sunlight
woodcut
5" x 8"

Life Emerging
reduction woodcut
14" x 11"

In a Triangular Mode
woodcut
12" x 18"

Ruth Ginsberg-Place

Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Boston printmaker, photographer and book artist, has taught at Southern Illinois University, Wheelock College and Wentworth College after receiving her MFA degree from Syracuse University. Recent one-person exhibits have been at Southern Vermont Center for the Arts, Brookline Senior Center, Young and Constantin Gallery in Vermont and New England Biolabs. She has been awarded artist residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mary Anderson Center for the Arts and Dorset Colony House. Some of the public collections that include her work are the Art Institute of Chicago, The Boston Public Library, the Hartford Hilton Hotel and Atelier 505 in Boston.

Artist's Statement:
Parks, ponds, pocket preserves of the city landscape are the sources for my prints. Images emerge from sketches, photographs I've taken or memories of special places. According to my mood, I enjoy both the technical challenges of woodblock printing and drypoint and the utter freedom of making monotypes. Some prints are black and white, others printed with color or hand-colored, some combine different techniques and have elements of collage.

My background as a tapestry artist has influenced how I break up space into smaller, patterned units, the flatness, and the layering of colors. Like most artists, I've been influenced by other artists' work: contemporary Japanese and American woodblock artists, French and American modernist painters, Edvard Munch and the German Expressionists.

Contact information:
ginsberg@brandeis.edu
www.ruthginsbergplace.com
617.566.1263