Ruth
Zachary
mixedmediart@gmail.com
Greeley,
CO
http://rzmontage.blogspot.com (takes viewer to new–Ruth Zachary Montage) - About Compostion, Realistic Art Techniques, Networking with Other Artists.
http://ruthzachary.blogspot.com
–( takes viewer to new Mixed Media Abstract Art) - About Organic and
Geometric Abstract Art, Patterned Field Landscapes, and More.
http://ruthzwritestuff.blogspot.com – (takes viewer to new R.Z. Write Stuff )- About Writing, Poetry , Networking with Other Writers
http://rzhealthstuff.blogspot.com
–(takes viewer to new blog Earth Born Health )- Nutritional Diet, Natural Remedies, Autoimmune Conditions.
OLDER BLOG POSTS from 2008 to Dec 2013. Discontinued
by Google in Dec. 2013, but these blogs are still available for viewing:
ruthzacharyart.blogspot.com
- About Art Techniques, to Network with Other Artists. (Continued Above.)rzwritestuff.blogspot.com ( takes viewer to old site) About Writing, Poetry, to Network with Other Writers. (Continued Above)
cuckooschild.blogspot.com - About Family. Poetry and Vintage Montages by Ruth Zachary.
ARTIST-WRITER BACKGROUND
Ruth
Zachary has been a full time fine artist since 1977. She moved to Greeley, Co,
from Michigan in 2004, and began showing her work in Colorado in 2005.
Ruth
Zachary completed a family memoir, Theories of Relativity, in 2012.
MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE.
Ruth Zachary graduated from Western
Michigan University in the Art Education Program, in 1967, which offered a wide
exposure to many types of media. She opted in favor of a career in
Social Work instead of teaching, until 1977, when she began a full time art
career, self-employed for twenty years.
In 1997 she was employed as a News
Reporter until 2004, although she continued to show her artwork during that
seven-year period.
ART CAREER EXPERIENCE
•Since graduating from WMU, she has
worked in several media, including: Painting, Mixed Media Collage, Photography,
Intaglio Printmaking, Wearable Art, and Computer Art.
•She taught Beginning Painting
classes at Kalamazoo Community College 1980s.
•She taught Printmaking classes at
the Battle Creek Art Center, in the1980s.
•From 1985-1987 she owned and
operated Graven Image Art Gallery in Kalamazoo.
•She was Juror at several Area
Competitions at the Lansing Art Gallery through 1999.
•She has been Public Presenter at
numerous art centers and educational institutions, workshops, etc.
•She gave a Presentation and
Demonstration for the Greeley Art Association in May 2007.
•She took part in multiple Area
Competitions, One Woman Shows and Group Art Exhibits in Kalamazoo, Lansing and
Battle Creek, Northport, Petoskey, and Newaygo, MI, as well as South Bend, In,
Milwaukee WI, and more,
•She exhibited her work in Outdoor
Art Fairs in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing, St. Joseph,
Saugatuck,
South Haven, Ann Arbor, Charlevoix, in MI, and in Indianapolis, IN, Cincinnati,
OH, and more.
EXHIBITS: Most Recent to Past.
•Madison and Main Cooperative
Gallery, ongoing Nov. 2005-Dec. 2013
•2012 Oct.-Nov One woman show,
Church of Christ Presbyterian, Greeley, CO
•2012 Jan.-Feb-One woman show.
Chalice Arts, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Greeley.
•Greeley Art Association Show, 2010,
2nd and 3rd prize for Mixed Media category.
•Greeley Art Association Show, 2008,
1st prize for Photography.
•Hidden Treasures of Greeley, 2007,
group show at Sodbuster Bldg, Greeley.
•Farr Library, One Woman Show 2007,
Vintage Montage, Greeley, CO
•Michner Library, Group Show, 2006
Social Commentary Show UNC, Greeley, Greeley Art Association Show, 2005, 2nd
prize for Mixed Media category.
•Upjohn Company One Woman Show 2003,
Kalamazoo MI
•Jefferson Street Art Gallery, One
Woman Show 2003, Reflections of Yesteryear Landscapes in Water Media,
Hastings, MI
•Upjohn Company, One Woman Show
1994? Kalamazoo, MI.
•Mythic Transitions 1984?
Two-person show - Wearable Art Exhibit at Knauss Hall, WMU, Kalamazoo Michigan.
ILLUSTRATIONS: 1987-1999s.
•Kay Gardner’s Oroboros
Cantata CD – Cover Design
•Diane Stein’s Stroking the
Python, book. Cover Design
•We Moon Calendar – intermittently -Interior
Illustrations. Anthology In the Spirit of We Moon. 2010
Artist’s
Statement
Creativity is a journey. Often, as an
artist, I feel I am being led from one kind of expression to the next.
Sometimes it is impossible to predict where the direction will lead. Certainly
it is difficult to pre-determine the character of the next series of work,
because being creative requires exploring ideas that are stimulated in the
process of completing a new piece.
My process has always included imagery
or techniques stimulated by accident, and then learning to use the discovery
and to explore its possibilities.
I began to study photography in 1975, and experimented with multiple exposures
and overlays in the darkroom. Placing different images in close proximity to
each other often suggests a metaphoric connection between them, and conveys an
idea different than one image alone.
The development of an idea in a given piece is an intuitive process, where some
images may be abandoned, others suggested, and emphasized, or de-emphasized by
using compositional devices such as repetition, layering, fading, contrast,
color changes, etc. Sometimes the theme is not completely understood until the
image is finished, if then. Often a viewer’s interpretation adds to the meaning
of what is included in the composition.
Over
the years I have worked in print making, painting, collage, and photography,
and all may be used in my work. My use of image making has evolved toward
montage as a way of presenting ideas and feelings. Using digital images and the
computer as a tool for creating montages seems the next logical step for
achieving the expression I have always found exciting.
I have gradually learned to incorporate
many different artistic forms: painting, drawing and photo images - both
landscapes and people together in one picture plane.
My recent work, in the past few years
has explored abstraction, including both geometric and organic compositions.
This was an effort to abandon approaches which had become easy and safe, and to
force myself to meet compositional challenges without relying on recognizable
subject matter.
Images
and Writing are the Copyright © of Ruth Zachary
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