Private view: Thursday 15th January 6.00 - 8.00 pm

Maureen Paley is pleased to present Ruth Root’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Ruth Root’s non objective paintings use bold industrial colours and aesthetically ordered geometries that invoke cityscapes, product design, and 1960s techno-graphics. The internal workings of each painting, rendered on shaped aluminium, corrupt the idea of pre-fab form. Though primarily concerned with the tautology of painting itself, the works are mounted flush to the wall creating an optical intervention within the architectural space of the exhibition.

Previous group exhibitions include Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland, 2008, The Painting Show-Slipping Abstraction, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK, 2007, Trade, White Columns, New York, USA, 2005, Extreme Abstraction, curated by Claire Schneider and Louis Grachos, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA, 2005, City Maps, ArtPace, San Antonio, USA, 2004, The ContemporaryArtProject Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA, 2003, Permanent Collection On View, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2003, Emotional Rescue: the ContemporaryArtProject Collection, curated by Linda Farris, Seattle Art Museum,Seattle, USA, 2002, Greater New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Laura Hoptman, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, USA, 2000. Recent solo exhibitions include Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, Gallery Min Min, Tokyo, Japan and Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain, all 2008 and Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria, 2005.