Marobeth Ruegg Oil Paintings: 2011-2014

June 15 – July 20, 2024
Owen Gallery

Reception:
June 28, 2024
5 PM – 7 PM
Owen Gallery

I think of my art as my part of a call-and-response song. The illimitable beauty of the earth is the call and my paintings are my response. I have chosen not to draw or depict scenes, things, objects. I aim to grapple with something less defined than anything that can be named. Forms, colors, and lines are what suggest an underlying layer to the visible identifiable everyday material world.

As a teenager, I encountered works of Wassily Kandinsky in my hometown Fine Arts Center. This and other influences crystalized my real creative focus, and after a career as a landscape designer, I have returned to painting.