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Email PageDon’t Mention the War
March 27, 2008- April 26, 2008
Kim Rugg
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Kim Rugg literally takes the front pages of major newspapers and cuts out each letter and organizes them in alphabetical order. In Don’t Mention the War, (2004) she uses the same process to splice the images, putting them back together by color gradation. This results in pixilated screens and headlines which read like organized baby talk. Most of the time Rugg randomly selects a paper but other times they are specifically selected. For Rugg, “What really interests me is how when I remove the message- the news- I am left with the messenger. The process brings this messenger to the foreground. The ‘personality’ and character of the paper is therefore amplified.” Formerly an art director in advertising Rugg is attuned to the tricks of that trade but this process is more then a revolt on those skills; it is also a meditative and transcendent process for her.
Kim Rugg graduated with a BA in painting from the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2002. In 2004, she received her MFA from the Royal College of Art, London, where she was awarded the Thames and Hudson prize. Recently, she has predominantly exhibited in London, as well as participating in numerous art fairs across the United States, including Pulse New York, Art Chicago and Pulse Miami. Her most recent solo exhibition was at the Mark Moore Gallery in 2007.
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