“Essentially my work is about the grandeur of women. What I’m hoping is that people feel the strength and power of being a woman.”
Ruth Aizuss Migdal's paintings and wood sculptures were abstract until 1971 when she began exploring the female figure. Ruth now works in bronze and steel, creating large abstracted figurative sculptures.
After a workshop in mold making at an International Sculpture Conference In Washington, DC in 1990, Ruth switched to bronze, concentrating on exploring the female torso in its many complexities. She continues to use bronze because of its permanence and flexibility. The sculptures vary in size and scale from larger than life to breast paperweights as small as three inches in diameter.
The public sculpture with which she is now deeply involved continued to explore the female torso on a larger-than-life scale. Fabricated in steel, they are celebrations expressed in dance and painted in a vivid red.
Her education includes a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of Illinois in Champaign, both in Painting and Printmaking. Recently, Ruth received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University at Illinois Chicago. As she turned to sculpture, her classical education enabled her to master a variety of materials. She worked with clay from 1971 to 1990.