Artist Member
A Walk in the Arboretum
4 original woodcuts with text about trees & relationships
6 h x 7″ w closed – 30” open – edition of 10
Baghdad 1258 A.D.
Monotype and text, digitally printed
10” square, 10 x 26” open
People Tell Me Lila is Beautiful
Collage
5 x 6”, closed – 30” open
Ruth Ginsberg-Place 
BIO
Although growing up in Brooklyn, New York and very much shaped by my neighborhood and then Greenwich Village, where I lived as a young adult, I have made Boston and Brookline my home. In the times between living in New York and New England, I received my MFA at Syracuse University. On graduating, I was hired on the Art Faculty at Southern Illinois University to develop and expand the Fiber Arts area. In those years I my medium was contemporary tapestry and fiber sculptures for both private and public spaces.
Moving to Boston, I taught part-time at Wheelock College and Wentworth Institute, while working in my studio at the Boston Center for the Arts. For the past several years I‘ve concentrated on both photography and on woodcut and monotype printmaking. My subject matter has been overwhelmingly based on trees and nature forms, as it was when I was a fiber artist. I’ve exhibited my fiber art, prints, photographs and books in group and solo exhibitions and have enjoyed residencies at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Acadia National Park. My work is included in a number of collections – among them The Art Institute of Chicago, The Boston Pubic Library, Congregation Beth El, Sudbury, The Federal Reserve Bank, Memphis and Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Making books has been an intermittent but satisfying aspect of my varied life as an artist. In my printmaking and photography I enjoy working in pairs and suites of related images, each piece referring to its adjoining work. Book forms as a medium for sequencing ideas and images offer this approach in an even richer way. They allow my viewers to move back and forth in space and time at their own pace and offer the pleasure of holding the art object as they view it, unlike looking at art on a wall.
My preferred formats are simple accordions, concertinas and folios, though at times I‘ve chosen three-dimensional constructions. My images are made using woodcut prints and monotypes, collage and photography, often accompanied by my original text. One series, however, consists purely of collage, another of insect forms created with torn paper. Some of my subject matter muses about nature, some is about family and other refers to political and social issues, current and past.