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![]() Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
![]() Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
![]() Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
![]() Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
![]() Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
![]() Ruth Marshall, Amur Leopard, 2007, knitted yarn bamboo and string, 92x53in Image courtesy of Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn/Berlin. |
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RUTH MARSHALL
Lives and works in the Bronx, New York Born Australia | 1964 Ruth Marshall's recreations of animal furs, snakeskins, and cast animal horns cause us to reexamine our relationship with animals. As a sculptor at the bronx zoo, her practice has evolved around creating faux natural and organic environments. Can these synthesized animal artifacts take on the same values as a real animal skin and bone? Perhaps they're something more, the thought that goes into creating an organic pattern and shape in a medium with it's own formal implications, such as knitting, is certainly worth a closer look. Her dedication to both the craft and the animals from which her pieces are drawn is shown in her series of coral snakes, of which she has knit all 68 species love of artifacts and relics has led her across the globe, through europe, northern africa, and asia. |