Ruth Van Beek's latest book approaches her archive both abstractly and practically

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Each piece by Ruth van Beek begins with the artist delving into her mammoth archive. Ruth’s collection of imagery is a treasure trove of inspiration. It’s also the backbone of her work, providing her material and is her secret weapon, allowing her to experiment with collaging or pairing imagery and therefore experiment with the audience’s perception of it too. For the artist, she actually considers it “like a greenhouse,” she tells It’s Nice That “where I experiment with growing all sorts of stories of characters” – which is definitely the case for the latest book, How To Do The Flowers.

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November 30, 2018 at 04:15PM Posted by Its That Nice https://ift.tt/2FQAYla