RUTH TROTTER
1981 Claremont Graduate University, MFA, Painting
1979 Scripps College, BA, Art
1989-present Professor of Art, The University of La Verne, Department Chair from 1989 - 2008
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2018 Undercurrents, group exhibition with Amy Green, George Keskeny, Robert Kingston, Danny Shain, and HK Zamani, 515 Gallery, Bendix Building, Los Angeles
2017 Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition, West Gallery, University of La Verne
2016/17 Small Works Exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Frames of Reference, solo exhibition, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 See Gee You, group exhibition with Quinton Bemiller, Brian Thomas Jones, Joe Lloyd, Chris Trueman, and Ruth Trotter, curated by Jane Liu, EWP Gallery, Monterey Park, CA
2015 Visualizations in Art and Science, curated by Margaret Lazzari, South Bay Contemporary Foundation, San Pedro, CA
2014 Transforming Feminisms, curated by Peggy Sivert Zask, South Bay Contemporary Foundation, Palos Verdes, CA
2014 SELECT Art Fair, Zask Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Millennial Abstractions, curated by Patricia Lea Watts, The Marin Community Foundation
2012 Departures: Virginia Katz, Margaret Lazzari, Maggie Tenneson, and Ruth Trotter, Zask Gallery, Rolling Hills, CA
2012 Four Seasons of Flora and Spices, curated by Charity Burnett and Liz Gordon at the Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles
2012 Covering Ground: Katherine Boland, Terri Brooks, Dawn Csutoros, Barbara Kerwin, Marion Lane and Ruth Trotter, Dark Horse Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (traveling)
2012 Ruth Trotter: Informal, Historic Gas Company Lofts, Los Angeles
2011 Covering Ground: Katherine Boland, Terri Brooks, Dawn Csutoros, Barbara Kerwin, Marion Lane and Ruth Trotter, curated by Dion Johnson, The Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2011 McHound 451, Gallery Neuartig at FLAGstop, with Daniel Habegger, Chad Brown, Jennifer Lynch and Catherine Borg, curated by Beate Kirmse, Torrance, CA
2011 Chain Letter, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Caylus, solo show, Gallery Neuartig, San Pedro, CA, curated by Beate Kirmse
2011 Venice Family Clinic Silent Art Auction, Venice, CA
2011 Art Auction XIV, Long Beach Museum of Art
2011 Exchange, curated by Shiva Aliabadi, The Vortex, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Second Nature: Landscape Variations, Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2010 ArtZone, Offramp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2010 Preludes to Painting, solo exhibition at Project_210 Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2010 The 210 Show, Project_210 Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2007 LOCUS I: Art and Craft of Claremont and the Region, Claremont Museum of Art,Claremont, CA
2007 PIXEL, curated by Dion Johnson, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
2007 Velocity Art Auction, Claremont Museum of Art
2005 Two Over Hung, Concrete Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Tremolo, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2004 Microclimate, Faculty Exhibition, University of La Verne
2004 Square Blue Benefit, Square Blue Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2003 Tinseltown, Domestic Setting, Culver City, CA
2003 Open Haus, Haus, Pasadena, CA
2001 Knots, solo exhibition, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2001 Informants, Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
1999 Spleen and Ideal, solo exhibition, Chuck, Los Angeles
1999 Carole Benzaken, Ann Page, and Ruth Trotter, Ellen Kim Murphy,Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
1998 Draped, solo exhibition, The Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, CA
1991 Faculty Exhibition, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1990 Faculty Exhibition, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1988 Alumni Exhibition, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1987 Image/Ambiguity, curated by Patrick Ely, Transamerica Center Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Contemporary Self-Portraits, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1985 Paintings, solo exhibition, Jannetty, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Contemplations, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 The Great Images and Issues Cover-Up Auction, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Three of Ours, Clark Humanities Museum, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1982 CSPG 16, Brea Cultural Center, Brea, CA
1981 Ruth Trotter Paintings, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1981 Claremont at Irvine, University of California, Irvine
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Barbara Kerwin, “Drawing from the Inside Out: Projects for Beginning Through Advanced Drawing,” 2015, ATS Art Textbook Society, pp. 182-184
Leora Lutz, Millennial Abstractions, at The Marin Community Foundation, San Francisco Art Quarterly, sfaqonline.com, May 2013
Jeannie R. Lee, Departures, ArtScene, November, 2012
Betty A. Brown, Elegant Integuments: Perception, Patterns, and Seeing Anew in Covering Ground, Covering Ground exhibition at The Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, September 2011, catalog essay
John Farrell, Artist’s Landscapes Inspired by Time in France, Long Beach Press Telegram, June 2, 2011
Artweek.LA previews, Second Nature: Landscape Variations, January, 2011
Ashley Tibbits, Locus I: Art and Craft from Claremont and the Region, Artweek, October 2007
Bill Mayr, Works from Los Angeles Designed to Test Eye, Mind, Columbus Dispatch Weekender, October 21, 2004
Andres Zervigon, Microclimate, The Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, catalog essay, 2004
Gen Doy, “Drapery: Classicism and Barbarism in Visual Culture,” 2002, I.B. Tauris, New York
Virginia Rutledge, Ruth Trotter: Draped, Art Papers, July/August, 1998
Terry Jacquemain, Draped Unfolds as Art, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, March 1998
Patrick Ely, Image/Ambiguity, Transamerica Center Galleries, exhibition brochure, 1987
SELECTED CURATORIAL
The Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne
2004 Sam Maloof: Woodworker and Furniture Maker
2003 WÜNDERGLOB*, Curtis Fairman
2003 PLACE, Steven Criqui, John Divola, Pam Goldblum + Jeff Kaisershot, Karin Apollonia Muller, Robert Olsen, John Pearson and Patrick Wilson
2003 Eric Zammitt: Particles and Waves
2002 BLEND, Alison Foshee, Robin Szidak and Melissa Thorne
2001 James Fuller: Mountains and Rocks
2000 Martin Betz, Ghost Town
2000 Jeanne Patterson, Eye of The Beloved
2000 Karl Benjamin: Vertical Chords
1996 Naysplatter, Jennifer Steinkamp and Grain
SELECTED WRITING
Blend, exhibition essay, Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne, 2002
Dorothea Tanning: Con-sequences on Paper, exhibition catalog, Sedona Museum of Art, Sedona, AZ, 1991
Donna Williams: Transform/Transpose/Metamorphose, exhibition catalog, Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, 1990
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2012-2016 Vice President and Board Member of South Bay Contemporary Foundation, San Pedro, CA
2012 Panelist on Artist Panel for The Four Seasons of Flora and Spice, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Review panelist for City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, public arts projects
2011 Juror for Redondo Beach Arts Group Juried show, Manhattan Beach Creative Arts Center
2011 Panelist with Hilary Baker, Greg Rose, Marie Thibeault, Devon Tsuno and Virginia Katz, moderated by Beate Kirmse, Investigating Landscape in Contemporary Art, Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, CA
2010 Panelist with Merry Lynn McCorkle, Chuck Feesago and Quinton Bemiller for panel discussion on RUTH TROTTER: Preludes to Painting, Project_210, Pasadena, CA
2008/9 Chaired University of La Verne committee and worked with artist Phillip K. Smith III for the development of a public art program on campus funded by the Muriel Pollia Foundation. First art work was installed in October of 2009.
2007 Artist’s lecture in conjunction with Locus I, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
2005 Review panelist for the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, public arts projects
2005 Manuscript Review of “Drawing: A Contemporary Approach,” 6th edition, by Claudia Betti and Teel Sale, Wadsworth publishers
2004 Manuscript Review of “Drawing Structure and Vision,” by Drury and Stryker, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, quoted in recent edition
2002 Guest speaker, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
2002 Program Review panelist for Department of Foundations, Otis College of Art and Design
1998 Guest speaker, Department of Graduate Art, Claremont Graduate University
1996 Advisor to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles for collaborations in higher education
1995 Moderator and coordinator for Art and Representation: Issues of Public Art in Urban Los Angeles, The University of La Verne
1991 Guest speaker for Dorothea Tanning: Con-sequences on Paper, Sedona Museum of Art
1988 Guest speaker, UCLA Extension, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS/GRANTS
2011 Member of the University of La Verne Academy in recognition for leadership in publication, research, and creative activity
2010 Artist in Residence at DRAWinternational, Caylus, France
2010 Sabbatical, Independent Study on Modes of Representation in Painting
2003 Faculty Summer Research Grant, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
2000 Faculty Research Grant in Art, The University of La Verne, La Verne, CA
1997/98 Faculty Diversity Grant, The James Irvine Foundation, Irvine, CA
1997 Sabbatical, independent study in Paris, France
1981 Teaching Fellowship in Painting, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
1980 Millard Sheets Scholar in Art, Claremont Graduate University and Scripps College