David Ruth
Oakland, CA, United States
Bay Area artist David Ruth has been making large-scale cast glass sculpture for over 30 years. After...
About the artist
David Ruth
Joined In 2010
(0 Followers)
About the artist
David Ruth
Joined In 2010
(0 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
Bay Area artist David Ruth has been making large-scale cast glass sculpture for over 30 years. After studies, Ruth moved to France where he developed techniques of cast glass sculpture with embedded color and imagery. Notable works include a glass entryway in the Emergency Operations Center in Oakland, California, and a 100-foot cast glass mural for Tokyo DisneySea in Japan. In 2003, Ruth was an artist in residence at Silpakorn University in Thailand as part of the Thai-American Exchange Program. He was awarded the National Science Foundation, Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grant for travel to Palmer Station, Antarctica taking texture molds off glacier ice and stone. This geology continues to inform Ruth’s current work. Ruth is currently finishing a two-story architectural glass mural, The Colorado Cascade. His sculptures are featured at Traver Gallery in Seattle, Joyce Gordon Gallery in Oakland, and Hawthorne Gallery on the central California coast.
Master of Fine Arts (MFA) | California College of the Arts, San Francisco CA | 1987
Bachelor of Arts, American History | Porter College, UC Santa Cruz | 1973
Selected Exhibitions:
Geologic Editions | Bulthaup/Designfunktion, Bonn, Germany | 2019
State of Change | Slate Gallery, Oakland CA | 2019
Shattered: Defying Expectations in Glass | Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland CA | 2017
Inaugural Exhibition | MusVerre Sars-Poteries France | 2016
Sparks: California Glass Networks (62-15) | The Glass Movement Catches Fire in California | 2015
Fine Arts Center Gallery | San Jose CA | 2015
Glass Sculptures by David Ruth | Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame CA | 2014
Hot Spot | Museum of Los Gatos, Los Gatos CA | 2014
THEN IS NOW | Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland CA | 2014
57º | Thoreau Gallery, Tides Foundation, San Francisco CA | 2012
Taos Glass Invitational | J Fine Art, Taos NM | 2010
Antarctic Artists and Writers, Selected Works | National Science Foundation, Arlington VA | 2009
antARcTica: Collected Images from the Bottom of the World | Maryland Science Center, Baltimore MA | 2009
Sticks and Stones | Traver Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Seattle WA | 2008