Solo exhibition: "Dream Disaster" at SBCAST, Santa Barbara
"Dream Disaster"
A solo exhibition and performance by The Shaft (Maiza Hixson & Lauren Ruth)
Jan 5 - 31, 2017
Jan 5, 2017 - performances begin on the half hour from 6-9pm
"Dream Disaster" is an interactive, post-apocalyptic performance and installation that playfully reframes society’s collective apathy towards climate change as a capitalist opportunity.
A group exhibition featuring performance and installation by The Shaft (Maiza Hixson & Lauren Ruth)
Nov 12 - Dec 18, 2016
Curated by Jehra Patrick
"The Soap Factory presents our 2016 submissions show, a group exhibition featuring the work of 11 emerging artists from across North America. Selected from The Soap Factory’s annual open call for
submissions juried by our Program Committee and curated by Jehra Patrick. All the work proposed for this show expresses ways of making and unmaking social dynamics of varying experiences,
objects, and associations of labor, sex, and artistry. 2016’s submissions exhibition will feature print, sculpture, video, performative, and installation work."
Solo Exhibition: "Wide Receivers and Near Misses" at Carlos Gallery, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN
"Wide Receivers and Near Misses"
A solo exhibition by Lauren Ruth
August 31 - Oct 1, 2016
Opening Reception and Artist Talk on Friday, September 2, 4:30pm
Carlos Gallery
The University of the South
105 Kennerly Road, Sewanee, TN
Solo Exhibition: "Wide Receivers" at Coop Gallery, Nashville
"Wide Receivers"
A solo exhibition by Lauren Ruth
April 2 - 30, 2016
COOP Gallery is pleased to present “Wide Receivers,” a sculpture by Lauren Ruth that explores patterns and logics that elastically and peripherally connect the body to the built
environment. The installation considers the body as a tool for reception and communication and investigates how manipulations of scale and context allow the body to take on new agency and
authority. Satellite dishes, boardrooms, and billboards are sites for various conversational arrangements – some pontificate, others listen.
"Mistaken Impressions" at Root Division, San Francisco
"Mistaken Impressions"
January 6 - 30, 2016
Curated by Whitney Lynn
"Mistaken Impressions is a multi-media exhibition challenging relationships of perception, cognition, illusion and truth through conceptually deceptive objects, videos, photographs, and
works on paper.
For centuries, artists have deployed trompe l’oeil techniques to create “tricks of the eye,” rendering playful illusions that raise questions about the nature of art and perception. Continuing in
this tradition, and expanding upon its history, the exhibition seeks to confront complex relationships to visual truth through the manipulation of materials and forms.
The works include wryly humorous attempts at fakery; explorations of the body; metaphors regarding race and gender; alchemical experiments; recreations of personal documents; invented
mythologies; and objects that are not at all what they seem."
Participatory Project: "THREE MONTH MARATHON" at The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
The Three Month Marathon
A participatory art project by Lauren Ruth
Presented as part of "Drift: A Series of Citywide Engagements"
March 3, 2013 - June 8, 2013
Philadelphia-based artist Lauren Ruth is organizing a THREE MONTH MARATHON, the world’s slowest non-competitive marathon event in the city of Wilmington. Evolving out of an athletic club
that Ruth is creating for ImPERFECT CITY, the THREE MONTH MARATHON consists of a series of eight ~3-mile runs that will tour a variety of Wilmington neighborhoods. Participants are
encouraged to help design the marathon course by suggesting favorite routes that highlight the areas they frequent and inhabit. Runners and walkers of all abilities are encouraged to
participate in this unique community artwork.
A group exhibition including TheDCCA Athletic Club
Feb 16 - June 8, 2013
The DCCA Athletic Club is a functional gym and exercise area for visitor use. Join us on Friday afternoons for weekly abdominal class, take some jabs at the punching bag, or stretch
out on a yoga mat for a siesta. The gym is free and open to all during regular DCCA hours!
"Contraption" at The Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
"Contraption: Devices in Art"
February 17 -June 24, 2012
Curated by Maiza Hixson
"Contraption" is a thematic exhibit featuring ingeniously playful sculptural works that invite interactivity. Wearable, audible, and usable, these works encourage
audience participation. Artists: Tim Eads, Tracy Featherstone, C. Grant Cox, III, Tyler Held, Cynthia Norton, Lauren Ruth, and Joanie Turbek.