Paintings 1990 - 1998
Paintings 1999 to present
"Shoes..." 1996 - 2003
sculpture installations
"Promenade" 2005
sculpture installation
 Ruth Pettus
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"What condemns some objects to oblivion and ennobles others? What can we learn from grungy bits of string or old sponges?
'The essence of an object has some relation with its destruction: not necessarily what remains after it has been used up, but what is thrown away as being of no use.' -Michel de Certeau, The Practice of Everyday Life
Pettus makes new meaning from the discarded, the overlooked and the mundane."

- Laura Burns
Laura Burns, a recipient of a Fulbright Grant in 2007, holds an MFA from Yale School of Art and is currently a professor at Goucher College.

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