Ruth Zachary Montage: ABOUT THE ARTIST, RUTH ZACHARY

WEBLOGS - From 2013 On.

Ruth Zachary mixedmediart@gmail.com

Greeley, CO

WEBLOGS - 2013 On.

http://rzmontage.blogspot.com (takes viewer to new–Ruth Zachary Montage) - About Compostion, Realistic Art Techniques, Networking with Other Artists.

http://ruthzachary.blogspot.com –( takes viewer to new Mixed Media Abstract Art) - About Organic and Geometric Abstract Art, Patterned Field Landscapes, and More.

http://ruthzwritestuff.blogspot.com– (takes viewer to new R.Z. Write Stuff )- About Writing, Poetry , Networking with Other Writers

http://rzhealthstuff.blogspot.com –(takes viewer to new blog Earth Born Health )- Nutritional Diet, Natural Remedies, Autoimmune Conditions.

OLDER BLOG POSTS from 2008 to Dec 2013. Discontinued by Google in Dec. 2013 but these blogs are still available for viewing:

ruthzacharyart.blogspot.com - About Art Techniques, to Network with Other Artists. (Continued Above.)
rzwritestuff.blogspot.com ( takes viewer to old site) About Writing, & Poetry, to Network with Other Writers. (Continued Above)
cuckooschild.blogspot.com - About Family. Poetry and Vintage Montages by Ruth Zachary.

ARTIST-WRITER BACKGROUND

Ruth Zachary has been a full time fine artist since 1977. She moved to Greeley, Co, from Michigan in 2004, and began showing her work in Colorado in 2005.

Ruth Zachary completed a family memoir, Theories of Relativity, in 2012.

MICHIGAN EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE.

Ruth Zachary graduated from Western Michigan University in the Art Education Program, in 1967, which offered a wide exposure to many types of media.

She opted in favor of a career in Social Work instead of teaching, until 1977, when she began a full time art career, self-employed for twenty years.

In 1997 she was employed as a News Reporter until 2004, although she continued to show her artwork during that seven-year period.

ART CAREER EXPERIENCE

•Since graduating from WMU, she has worked in several media, including: Painting, Mixed Media Collage, Photography, Intaglio Printmaking, Wearable Art, and Computer Art.

•She taught Beginning Painting classes at Kalamazoo Community College 1980s.

•She taught Printmaking classes at the Battle Creek Art Center, in the1980s.

•From 1985-1987 she owned and operated Graven Image Art Gallery in Kalamazoo.

•She was Juror at several Area Competitions at the Lansing Art Gallery through 1999.

•She has been Public Presenter at numerous art centers and educational institutions, workshops, etc.

•She gave a Presentation and Demonstration for the Greeley Art Association in May 2007.

•She took part in multiple Area Competitions, One Woman Shows and Group Art Exhibits in Kalamazoo, Lansing and Battle Creek, Northport, Petoskey, and Newaygo, MI, as well as South Bend, In, Milwaukee WI, and more,

•She exhibited her work in Outdoor Art Fairs in Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, Lansing, St. Joseph,

Saugatuck, South Haven, Ann Arbor, Charlevoix, in MI, and in Indianapolis, IN, Cincinnati, OH, and more.

EXHIBITS: Most Recent to Past.

•Madison and Main Cooperative Gallery, ongoing Nov. 2005-Dec. 2013

•2012 Oct.-Nov One woman show, Church of Christ Presbyterian, Greeley, CO

•2012 Jan.-Feb-One woman show. Chalice Arts, Unitarian-Universalist Church of Greeley.

•Greeley Art Association Show, 2010, 2nd and 3^rd prize for Mixed Media category.

•Greeley Art Association Show, 2008, 1^st prize for Photography.

•Hidden Treasures of Greeley, 2007, group show at Sodbuster Bldg, Greeley.

•Farr Library, One Woman Show 2007, Vintage Montage, Greeley, CO

•Michner Library, Group Show, 2006 Social Commentary Show UNC, Greeley, Greeley Art Association Show, 2005, 2^nd prize for Mixed Media category.

•Upjohn Company One Woman Show 2003, Kalamazoo MI

•Jefferson Street Art Gallery, One Woman Show 2003, Reflections of Yesteryear Landscapes in Water Media, Hastings, MI

•Upjohn Company, One Woman Show 1994? Kalamazoo, MI.

•Mythic Transitions 1984? Two-person show - Wearable Art Exhibit at Knauss Hall, WMU, Kalamazoo Michigan.

ILLUSTRATIONS: 1987-1999s.

•Kay Gardner’s Oroboros Cantata CD – Cover Design

•Diane Stein’s Stroking the Python, book. Cover Design

•We Moon Calendar – intermittently -Interior Illustrations. Anthology In the Spirit of We Moon. 2010

Artist’s Statement

Creativity is a journey. Often, as an artist, I feel I am being led from one kind of expression to the next. Sometimes it is impossible to predict where the direction will lead. Certainly it is difficult to pre-determine the character of the next series of work, because being creative requires exploring ideas that are stimulated in the process of completing a new piece.

My process has always included imagery or techniques stimulated by accident, and then learning to use the discovery and to explore its possibilities.

I began to study photography in 1975, and experimented with multiple exposures and overlays in the darkroom. Placing different images in close proximity to each other often suggests a metaphoric connection between them, and conveys an idea different than one image alone.

The development of an idea in a given piece is an intuitive process, where some images may be abandoned, others suggested, and emphasized, or de-emphasized by using compositional devices such as repetition, layering, fading, contrast, color changes, etc. Sometimes the theme is not completely understood until the image is finished, if then. Often a viewer’s interpretation adds to the meaning of what is included in the composition.

Over the years I have worked in print making, painting, collage, and photography, and all may be used in my work. My use of image making has evolved toward montage as a way of presenting ideas and feelings. Using digital images and the computer as a tool for creating montages seems the next logical step for achieving the expression I have always found exciting.

I have gradually learned to incorporate many different artistic forms: painting, drawing and photo images - both landscapes and people together in one picture plane.

My recent work, in the past few years has explored abstraction, including both geometric and organic compositions. This was an effort to abandon approaches which had become easy and safe, and to force myself to meet compositional challenges without relying on recognizable subject matter.

ABOUT THE ARTIST, RUTH ZACHARY

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