About
Cheryl Ruddock is a multimedia artist from Detroit, Michigan, whose studio has been based in Guelph, Ontario, for over 30 years. Her works belong to public, private, and corporate collections internationally.
From weavings and wall hangings, to sculpture and installation, to paintings in gouache, acrylic and oil, Cheryl Ruddock has experimented with materials and form while exploring both personal and cultural mythologies connected to botanicals, land forms, the female body and female clothing, and above all the frequencies and possibilities of colour as a medium of expression within and beyond the figurative.
For a history of solo and group exhibitions, please see CV.
“Cheryl Ruddock’s painting slips between narrative and noose, body and sheath, skin and cavity, where one or all of these elements are grafted onto canvas, handmade paper, or bound vessel. Ruddocks imagery is both diaphanous and visceral, borne from observation and of artifact, tapped into the subconscious and the spiritual. Her paintings are also richly and robustly made from paint, wood, canvas, and paper”
“Cheryl Ruddock’s work is about a re-valuing of the spiritual, in a knowing and tentative but altogether convincing manner for an artist working in the twenty-first century . . . it exists in the fissures of the work, where colour, once descriptive, mingles tantalizingly with pure retinal bliss.”