Scope and Contents

Each page records four progressively finished images, the result of one or the other artist adding to the original drawing his/her marks through a solely artist correspondence back and forth between the two. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Essay by Jan Avgikos, "How to Read an Artist's Book." Reproduces Richard C's "The Private Life of the Rabbit," Ruth Laxson's "Earth Score" and "Two Letter Words," all held by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

This book is Laxson's view of the impact of a nuclear explosion. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Catherine Foc exhibition review at MOCA GA: Over the course of her long, fecund career, Ruth Laxson has honed a unique language rooted in her fascination with forms of communication. Letters, words, hieroglyphics, mathematical symbols, equations, Braille, computer acronyms, typefaces, handwriting, pictures: the Atlanta artist uses these elements as abstract shapes, allusive imagery "” and content. Text is as important as image, be it straightforward sentences and phrases or wordplay: the puns, anagrams and lists through which she gets at more elusive meanings than linear language allows.The parameters of her subject matter and worldview are, you might say, microcosmic.* Laxson's take on enduring themes "” love, sex, power and their manifestation in relationships, feminism, war, politics and philosophy "” all are nested in perception of matter, space and time shaped by the teachings of Georgia Tech physics professor David Finkelstein and her own ruminations about God. Her works are...

Scope and Contents

The exhibition at Printed Matter was held concurrently with the major exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art. Both were curated by Johanna Drucker. This catalogue also lists the price of the works for sale. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Commissioned for "The Beauty In Breathing" exhibition. Highly stylized image of the lungs with words and symbols used to illustrate the act of breathing, which the artist has depicted as a musical event. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.