THREE FOR SPRING
April 20 - May 12, 2024
Opening Reception Saturday, April 20, 3-5pm

Ruth Gallery is excited to announce the opening of THREE FOR SPRING, a group exhibition featuring work by Los Angeles artists Bas Louter, Reuben Merringer, and Keiko Nakagawa.

Bas Louter's transfer series (top left) debuting in Ruth Gallery's courtyard apartment, is deeply rooted in personal context, completed at a time when the artist was balancing full-time fatherhood with studio efficiency and navigating the challenges of the pandemic. Through the transfer process, Louter abstracts images from glossy and glamorous printed material, infusing them with imperfections, loss of color, wear and tear, and a matte surface. This technique warps the original imagery, creating a dynamic interplay of creation and deconstruction. The flow of arranging and rearranging within Louter's process leaves room for the white of the paper, the distortion of imagery, and the satisfying sense of ambiguity.

Reuben Merringer writes of his work, "At the heart of my practice is the relationship between language and image. Visual and sound work to inform conceptualizations of language and image, and vice versa. My current interest is the presence of affect in the inscrutable, and how elusive familiarity and the seeming agency found within an image can conspire to potentiate emotions and actions resistant to categorization."

Keiko Nagakawa infuses her work with elegant gestures inspired by natural and animal forms. "Creating a shape in an empty space is a start and my work makes progress intuitively from there," she states, "I respond deeply to the phrase, 'truth is invisible,' and my work is likely based on this concept."