Ruth Scotch

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Sometimes when you paint a specific story at a specific moment in time, you make something feel universal, or at least that is my goal. I either take my own photos or mine my friends’ photos for one that leaps out at me, telling me to paint it. Usually, the narrative emerges as I paint, even though I have an overall idea at the beginning of the piece. The inspiration may be an evocative gesture or emotion as in Eliza (a friend’s daughter who has autism) or Myriam (who displays the sheer joy of a day at the beach) or it can be more about light and color and composition as in Morning Light in Hardwick (from a photo that I took), and hopefully a story reveals itself as I develop my work.

EXHIBITIONS

2024 Gallery 360, Boston, MA
"Free Speech III" Juried Group Show
2024 Concord Art Triennial Faculty Show, Concord, MA
2024 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
Annual Juried Group Show
2024 Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Annual Juried Exhibition
2024 LexArt Gallery, Lexington, MA
"Free Speech" Juried Group Show
2023 24th Annual Roddy Open Competition, Concord, MA
Juried Group Show
2023 Twist Gallery, Lexington, MA
"Illuminations" Group Show
2023 LexArt Gallery, Lexington, MA
"Home" Juried Group Show
Awarded Juror's Choice
2023 Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum Framingham, MA
Juried Group Show
2023 Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, MA
Annual 29th Juried Show
2023 Tolles Parson Center, Wellesley, MA
Juried Group Show
2023 Workshop13, Ware, MA
"Celebrating the Figure" JGS
Awarded Best Expressive Painting
2022 23rd Annual Roddy Open Competition, Concord Art Concord, MA
Juried Group Show
2022 Piano Factory Gallery, Boston, MA
"Speak Up" Juried Group Show
2022 4th Annual Northeast Fine Arts Exhibition, Ware, MA
Juried Group Show
2022 Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, MA
28th Annual Exhibit, Juried Group Show
2022 Workshop 13, Ware, MA
"Celebrating the Figure"- JGS Awarded Best Color
2022 Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA
"Bits and Pieces", Juried Group Show
2022 Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Faculty Spotlight, Solo Show
2022 Cape Cod Cultural Center, Yarmouth, MA
Juried Group Show
2021 Zullo Art Gallery, Belmont, MA
27th Annual Exhibit, JG
2020 The Heritage, Sherborn, MA
Solo Show
2020 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
"26th Annual Juried Exhibition" - Juried Group Show
2019, Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
"25th Annual Juried Exhibition" - Juried Group Show
2019 Roux and Cyr Gallery, Portland, ME
"My Best Art"-- Juried Group Show
2018 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
"24th Annual Juried Exhibition"
Belmont Art Gallery, Belmont, MA
"Rhythm and Hues" Juried Group Show
2018 Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
Faculty Show
2018 Morse Library, Natick, MA
Juried Group Show
2017 Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
"Summertime" Group Show
2016 Zullo Gallery, Medfield, MA
"Lost and Found" Group Show
2016 Brookhaven, Lexington, MA
"Ruth Scotch: Past and Present" One Person Show
2015 Gallery at Spencer Lofts, Chelsea, MA
"Liquid's Edge" Two Person Show
2015 Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham, MA
"Danforth Faculty Show"
2015 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
"Possessions-Prized or Otherwise" Juried Group Show
2015 Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham, MA
"Community of Artists" Juried Group Show
2014 Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham, MA
"Community of Artists" Juried Group Show
2014 Gallery 370, Holliston, MA
"One Person Show"
2013 Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham, MA
"Danforth Faculty Show"
2013 Flora Restaurant,Arlington, MA
"Faces and Fish" One Person Show
2013 Danforth Museum of Art,Framingham, MA
"Community of Artists" Juried Group Show
2012 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
"Community of Artists" – Juried Group Show
2012 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
"Danforth Faculty Show"
2011 Belmont Gallery of Art, Belmont, MA
"See you, See Me" The Art of the Portrait – Juried by Jennie Summerall, National Portrait Award Winner
2011 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
"Green" – Juried by Kate McNamara, Director and Chief Curator for Boston University Art Gallery
2011 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
"Community of Artists" – Juried Group Show
2011 The Center for the Arts in Natick, Natick, MA
"Danforth Faculty Show"
2010 Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
"Seeing Double" – Juried by Kristina Durocher, Curator of Collections at the Fitchburg Arts Museum
2010 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
"Off the Wall" – Juried by Jen Mergel, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
2009 Chez Pascal, Providence RI
"Paintings" – One Person Show
2009 Flora Restaurant, Arlington, MA
"Portraits" – One Person Show
2009 Amazing Things Art Center, Framingham, MA
Juried Group Show
2008 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
"Out of the Blue" – Juried by Jennifer Wood–Patrick, founder of Art Advisory/Boston
2008 Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA
"Off the Wall" – Juried by Institute of Contemporary Art Curator Carol Anne Meehan
2007 Old Town Hall, Salem, MA
"Ode to Cornell" – Juried by Peabody Essex Museum Chief Curator Lynda Roscoe Hartigan
2005 Flora Restaurant, Arlington, MA
"Recent" Works – One Person Show
2001 The Center for Arts in Natick, MA
"Photographic Memory "– two person show
2001 Powers Gallery, Acton, MA
Group Show
2001 Bert Gallery, Providence, RI
"From Still Life to Landscape: Artistic Choice" – group show
2000 Coco's Salon Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, MA
"Salon Show" – one person show
2000 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
"Blue" – juried group show
1999 Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts, Concord, MA
"Recent Works" – one person show
1997 Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA
"To Market..." – one person show
1997 The Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Boston, MA
"Retrospective" – one person show
1996 Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA
"Visions" – two person show
1995 Jamaica Plain Multicultural Arts Center, Boston, MA
Emerging Artists Gallery
"Boston Haymarket" – one person show
1995 Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA
"The Art of Giving Two" – group show
1995 Boston University, Boston, MA
Fuller Art Gallery
"The Art of the Matter" Exhibition
1994 Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA
"Summer Salon" – group show
1993 Perrin Gallery, Brookline, MA
"The Art of Giving One" – group show
1992 Bowery Gallery, Soho, NY
Juried Group Show
1991 The Trident Bookstore Gallery, Boston, MA
1990 Maynard Gallery, Maynard, MA