In its September issue, Art+Auction compiled a list of the 25 most collectible midcareer artists working today. This month, ARTINFO will publish one installment from the feature per day. Click here to read Art+Auction editor-in-chief Eric Bryant’s introduction to the list. To see all the installments published so far, click here.
Lisa Ruyter | b. 1968 | United States
The Vienna- and New York–based artist creates her Pop art–inspired works through a combination of media: she takes photographs, produces line drawings from them, and then blocks out specific color zones where she applies paint. The result is two-dimensional image with digital attributes.
For subject matter, Ruyter focuses largely on the mundane activities of people in shopping centers, restaurants, bars, and elsewhere.
Her work has been shown in international exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Colección Jumex in Mexico City; the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg, Austria; and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, among others. This past spring, Eleven Rivington presented “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” the artist’s first New York solo show since 2006.
According to Helen Waters, codirector of the Alan Cristea Gallery in London, the artist’s U.K. representative since 2010, her paintings, including Walker Evans ‘Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama,’ 2011, range in price from $10,000 to $35,000, while her editioned prints sell for $1,200 to $5,000. Walk Softly, Stranger, a woodcut on Japanese Unryushi paper from 2012, produced in a run of 35, is currently on offer for $1,900.
