Ruth Jeyaveeran
Ruth Jeyaveeran is an artist, designer and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She uses wool in her art practice to examine the relationship between craft, textiles, technology, and human history. Her soft sculptures, installations and wall hangings have been exhibited at various galleries throughout New York including Field Projects, ABC No Rio and Westbeth Gallery. She’s been awarded residencies at the Jentel Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, La Napoule Art Foundation, and PADA Studios. Currently she's an Assistant Professor of Textile Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She has also taught courses in textiles and fibers at Parsons School of Design.
Recurrent themes in her work focus on the body, the environment, and our broken connection to nature. What Came Before, an installation of soft sculptures, explores the interconnectedness of objects in the material world. Presented in a “reverse taxonomy” these “artifacts” evoke archaeology, natural history, and the sea, which hews all things down to their essence. The organic and utilitarian forms are made from wool and connected by yarn emphasizing our shared history and shared fate with the natural world.
