Last week, we opened Ruth Root in our Forum gallery with an artist talk. Root spoke to the enduring themes of color and shape in her work, and added that her new paintings can be seen as a sort of parallel universe of her previous works. . You can see an example of her older works in the first image. The painting hangs very flat, bringing the white of the wall into conversation with her pastel shapes. . In the second image, you see one of the works from her current show, which incorporates original patterns, found images, and spray paint, expanding the vocabulary of Root's work but maintaining the play of fore- and background. . Ruth Root, Untitled, 2003, Carnegie Museum of Art. Photo: Bryan Conley. Ruth Root, Untitled, 2019. Courtesy of the artist and Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York. #RuthRoot #CMOAforum #ContemporaryArt #ArtMuseum