Artist, San Francisco Bay Area
November 7, 2011
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” –Alexander Pope “I get by with a little help from my friends” –The Beatles While I rush ahead in one way (graduating from both high school & art school pretty early, 16 & Read more…
October 24, 2011
… and I hit my fingers with the hammer a couple times while constructing this thing. I’m gonna keep posting the revisions I’m making, maybe something will make sense soon. It’s not an understatement that I screamed tiny screams several Read more…
October 5, 2011
(These paintings are up at Extra Gallery, NYC, now through Nov 1st.) I began work on these paintings in the middle of the summer. The panel shapes came first, then the words followed. Friends and family members went in and Read more…
September 16, 2011
An unspoken truth doesn’t cease to exist. It doesn’t disappear into the background, It isn’t irrelevant. It’s the frightened surface of the lightning rod, silent and waiting for the charge. – written by me, this summer After so very many Read more…
July 27, 2011
1. Summertime has been quiet. The studio is quiet, the tools are quiet, the mind is quiet while the activity buzzes around me, the two little boys and summer and running and true break of dawn till sundown activity, and Read more…
June 20, 2011
“…wish you were here” each piece = google map printed on yupo, watercolor, gloss on vellum, cut plastic, string five pieces of mail from me to Hyperallergic June 2011 Showing as a part of Hyperallergic HQ’s “Presents,” Co-curated by Kate Read more…
June 7, 2011
Sandra Lee Gallery One of my paintings is being included in this exhibition. The opening is this Thursday June 9, 5:00 – 7:30. Show runs through June 27th. Sharon Butler of the Two Coats of Paint painting blog has written Read more…
May 15, 2011
News from the studio of Maritza Ruiz-Kim | May 2011 Hello Friends, Here’s an update on my current work. My recent video “inquieta/in quiet a” has been included in the No Dialogue video screening to be held at the ArtPadSF art Read more…
May 9, 2011
Titles: a. There isn’t, #within b. Lo que no me (progress isn’t just a), #within c. A time when, #within d. Aquí o acá (looking over), #within Materials: on panel… encaustic (wax/resin), string, nails, silk tissue, & a bit of: Read more…
April 21, 2011
inquieta/in quiet a 2011 9 min 30 sec “Inquieta” is the feminine form of the word “restless” in Spanish. The correct pronunciation is “een-kee-eh-tah” but I keep making the mistake of saying “in-kwhy-eh-ta”. There is no “I” or “eye” sound Read more…
March 24, 2011
Artifact from an Anthropological Experience 2010 vellum, acrylic, watercolor, aluminum, inkjet on panel 16″ x 20″ (Click on above ☝ image once, and then click one more time for closer look) UPDATING MYSELF MARCH 2011: I find this piece of Read more…
March 2, 2011
Progress on this Within project has been a series of bursts of energy followed by quiet flameouts. I feel like I’ve been trying to ascend into this exploration with a succession of hand-powered pounds of a fireplace bellow, trying to Read more…
February 18, 2011
I’ve spent some days in the studio, painting. And just today, I gathered hardware supplies to learn the process of constructing my own stretcher bars for these unique sized canvases I want to paint on (34″ x 44″), basically four Read more…
February 10, 2011
My mind wanders a lot when I’m lost in activities, not the least of which is painting. I’m pushing this liquified color around panels & canvases, and I lose myself/observe myself at the same time. This process is so halting, Read more…
So I found a way to lose myself in painting. I’m moving ahead with placing myself in an essential art making form, while infusing it with layers of ways to approach this very activity that I love. I started in Read more…
February 8, 2011
Last week (my previous post) was the first trial run for exploring the process of physically creating this #within project. So I did it. I chose a piece of information and I buried it into a little painting that I Read more…
January 28, 2011
(Seriously, I need to update here a couple times a week. That’s my plan anyway. Thanks for your patience as I warm up to this project. Here is my continuing record of the process of the creation of this project, Read more…
January 18, 2011
(This is a link-happy post.) Another intro: Here’s this #within project, me pledging to bury important pieces of information into paintings, and this documentation process to prove that I’m doing so. I’m not only burying this private information into the Read more…
January 13, 2011
My contribution to @Platea’s participatory art Project VIII: Tree Blogging (Source Material found at plateastweets.blogspot.com) Title: John Muir, and then something happened (Installation + Text) by: Maritza Ruiz Kim materials: inkjet on vellum & canvas, wood veneer, gloss on vellum, Read more…
