Ruth Adler is a printmaker, painter, video and fabric artist who divides her time between Toronto and Tel Aviv. Adler is represented in Toronto by the Lonsdale Gallery and in New York by Jim Kempner Fine Art.
Ruth Adler grew up in Alberta where the open prairie sky made a deep impression on what would be her visual language. After high school, Ruth went in search of a warmer climate and found it in Tel Aviv, where she studied art and design. She spent the next twenty years traveling between Canada and Israel, with frequent stopovers in Italy and New York.
| It was in Italy that Ruth discovered her love and fascination for pattern that inspired her in the study of textile design. She brought to this traditional field her prairie sensibility of simplicity and balance, and a wild colour sense reminiscent of Henri Matisse, likely acquired from years living on the shores of the Mediterranean. In the early eighties, Ruth walked into Marci Lipman Graphics on Avenue Road in Toronto with some textile designs under her arm and began her career in t-shirts and fashion, a wave she and Marci rode until the late nineties. During this time, Ruth started a t-shirt company in Israel known as Lipti Art to Wear, destined to become a household name in Israel. She continued to receive design commissions from both sides of the Atlantic, from the Schneider Children’s Hospital in Petach Tiqva to linen collections for Macy’s and Martex, while running a business, raising a family and teaching surface design at the Shenkar Institute of Design.Her vibrant, colourful Lipti t-shirts were sold all over the world. Ruth also had exhibitions of her serigraphs in New York, Tel Aviv and Toronto. |  |
Back in North America In the late nineties, Ruth wrote, illustrated, and directed an animated short about her love of Canada’s rugged beauty and colorful history. Then she discovered a new landscape in the form of a circle, her “inner landscape” that has been the basis of her artwork since 2001. From the outset, Jim Kempner Fine Art has represented Ruth’s circles in New York and the Lonsdale Gallery carries her work in Toronto. |
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
TOAE 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
The Artist Project, Toronto, Ontario
Lonsdale Gallery, The Lonsdale Drawers, Toronto, Canada, group show
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, USA, group show
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Harbourfront Centre Gallery Home/Representation, Toronto, Canada, group show
Toronto Alternative Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, USA, group show
Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
ICFF, New York, USA
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS |
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| 1998 to 2008 | The Canadian Place Names Project. Created a series of animated shorts about how places in Canada got their names |
| 1991 to 1998 | The Schneider Medical Centre of Israel, Petach Tikvah, Israel, designer and art consultant . |
| 1986 to 2000 | Lipti Art to Wear, Tel Aviv, Israel. Established Lipti Art to Wear, created images based on scenes of life in Israel that were hand-printed onto t-shirts and fabric and sold in Israel, Europe and United States. |
| 1984 to 1997 | Marci Lipman Graphics, Toronto, Canada. Created over 60 images for t-shirts and fabric. Work was sold across Canada. |
PRESS
Chatelaine, September 2011
Canadian House and Home, January 2008
Selvedge, England, Issue 12, Spring 2006
Canadian Interiors, May 2006
Elle Decoration France, February 2006
Elle Interior Norway, December 2005
Canadian House and Home, December 2005, January 2006
Style at Home, January & September 2004
New York Times, Contemporary gets a reality check, pg D6, May 20th 2004
Elle Canada, July 2004
Canadian Interiors, March 2004
National Post, Avenue page, November 29, 2000
PUBLISHED AND BROADCAST WORK
Red Circles, Published and distributed by Posters International, 2004
HGTV, Interview with Sarah Richardson about the circle paintings, 2003
How Yellowknife got its Name, Broadcast on Bravo 2001
Design Showcase, Israel Television Channel 2, interview about career in art and design, 1996
Tel Aviv Sketches, Catalogue of “Design in Tel Aviv” published by the Escolla Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1994
Graphis T-Shirt 1, Graphis Press Corp., Zurich Switzerland., pg.195, 1992
Cacti, published and distributed by Mcgaw & King, 1987
Paper Flowers, published and distributed by Mcgaw & King, 1986
Night Palm, poster published and distributed by Mcgaw & King, 1985
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2002 Heritage Ministry Canadian Studies Program research grant for animated film series Canadian Place Names project.
2001 BravoFact! Award, for animated short “How Yellowknife got its name”
2001 Lonsdale Gallery Sponsorship Award
2000 Historica, production grant for animated short film
1984 Artists’ Choice Award, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
1984 Best Graphics, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Canada
Bank of Montreal, Toronto Canada
The Schneider Medical Centre of Israel, Petach Tikva, Israel
TransAmerica Group, Edmonton, Canada
The Iroquois Hotel, New York, USA
Paragon Capital Partners, New York, USA
Amie Weitzman Interior Design, New York, USA
Tartakover, Tel Aviv, Israel
Bayshore Capital, Toronto, Canada
Silver, Gold, Glatt & Grossman, Toronto, Canada