- Featured Artist
This issue’s featured artist is sculptor and designer Donna Ruff, M.A., M.F.A.
Originally a graphic designer working “on communicating economically,” her artwork evolved to “push the idea of economy to its limits, to the point of impeding communication and questioning how much must be left behind to retain the narrative” (see https://www.donnaruffart.com/statement).
Working with newspapers and cutting patterns from vanishing print editions, Ruff aims to create a dialogue of positive and negative space to determine what image and text remains for the viewer to engage with. The lost and found information contrasting to its aesthetic beauty reflects a dissonance that today Ruff uses to capture the socialcultural-political impact of violence in our times.
Ruff’s works have been exhibited across the United States and abroad and can also be found in public collections such as Victoria & Albert Museum, Morgan Library, Smith College Museum of Art, Yale Art Gallery Chasanoff collection of artists books, Library of Congress, Johnson & Johnson, and others.