RUTH LAUER-MANENTI – REMNANTS
2020-02-10Ruth Lauer-Manenti lives in a cabin in the woods in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Her background is in painting and drawing, but fifteen years ago she inherited a K.B. Canham large-format camera from someone she greatly admired. She taught herself how to use the camera and gradually accomplished in photography that which she had been striving for through drawing and painting. She gathers much of her inspiration from looking at drawings and paintings continuously over decades. Her mother was also an artist. She had a wealth of talent and worked steadily throughout her life, yet her number one role was to take care of her family. Sadly, she left behind a legacy of unwanted, unpublished, unknown work. Lauer-Manenti realizes, now that her mother has passed away, that part of her determination as an artist is to honor her mother and to create a continuum. She has developed a strong spiritual life and practice, since breaking her neck in a car crash at the age of twenty, and adapted a simpler and more ritualistic way of life than she had known.
Opposite – Leaf in Hand, 2019
Exhibition runs through to March 6th, 2020
Center for Photography at Woodstock
59 Tinker Street
Woodstock
NY 12498
