Ruth-Anne Siegel's artistic journey began within a family obsessed with museums, exploring New York's galleries. She spent her career honing her skills as a graphic designer in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area before embracing her true calling as a fine artist.

Her artistic approach, shaped by synesthesia, establishes color as the foundation of her creative practice and process-led discovery. Siegel creates art that reflects her experience of motherhood—responding intuitively to chaos and change, and drawing inspiration from life's beautiful disorder.

Currently a candidate for an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, she attended the Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in graphic design. Her education has continued with further study at Stanford University, Brown University, the Pacific Art League, UC Santa Cruz, and other institutions. She has studied with Assaf Evron, Michael Azgour, Gracia Melanson, Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and Richard Merkin.



 

Her curatorial experience includes being the associate director of A.Space Gallery in Menlo Park, CA and co-chair of Gallery House in Palo Alto, CA.

Siegel’s work is in collections throughout the US and internationally. Her work has been featured on ArtsyShark, in the Piedmont Exedra and on Silicon Valley ‘Talk Art’ TV. She lives in Northern California.

 

UNOFFICIAL INFO:

On her playlist: My Morning Jacket, Spoon, The Who, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Bernard Fanning

 

On her bulletin board: photographs of vegetables, the work of Milton Avery, Franz Kline, and Richard Diebenkorn, old book pages

 

On her nightstand: Jane Eyre, Just My Type: a book about fonts, photos of her kids in 2003 (so cute!)