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WhitePurpleCoral by Ruby Palmer
  • Ruby Palmer
  • WhitePurpleCoral, 2024
  • Flashe, acrylic, and acrylagouache on Arches 300 lb paper
  • 30 x 22 in (76.2 x 55.88 cm)

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  • Artist: Ruby Palmer (American, b. 1969)

Ruby Palmer was born in 1969 in Boston, MA and grew up in rural Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Her work includes work on paper, painting, sculpture, installation, and wood constructions.

She received a BA in Painting and Drawing at Hampshire College (1988-92). She started experimenting with sculpture and installation in 1998 at the School of Visual Arts (MFA 2000) as a way to work larger and directly with the architecture of the room. In 1999 she was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors.

Ruby is currently working on a 450 square foot wall sculpture commissioned by Southwest Air for display at the Albany International Airport (completion date March 2025). She recently exhibited work at Onna House in East Hampton, NY. She has also shown work at Morgan Lehman Gallery in NYC (2004, 2014, 2021, 2023). In 2022, she exhibited a site-specific installation at Turley Gallery in Hudson, NY. Her work was included in the Mohawk Regional Juried Exhibition at Opalka Gallery 2021, and she was awarded the Chet and Karen Opalka Award. Her work has been shown at the Albany International Airport, Opalka Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliff Guild, LABspace, The Foundation Gallery at Columbia-Greene Community College, Jeff Bailey Gallery, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, Page Bond Gallery, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Instar Lodge, Smack Mellon, Exit Art, and Kendall Art and Design, among others.

Ruby was interviewed by Art Spiel in 2023, and her work has been discussed in reviews by The Albany Times Union, Daily Gazette (Albany), House Beautiful, Roll Magazine, and ArtForum. One of her site-specific installations was featured in the NY Times.

Her work is in many private collections as well as the corporate collections of Fidelity Bank, Morgan Stanley, and Capital Group.

From 2016-2020, Ruby ran ARTalks, an artist lecture series held at the local library in Rhinecliff, NY, which featured two contemporary Hudson Valley-based artists presenting their work. Ruby has lived in Rhinecliff, NY since 2010 with her husband and twin daughters. Her studio is nearby in Red Hook, NY.