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Round
Flashe and acrylaguache on prepared canvas
28 x 22 inches
Courtesy of Ruby Palmer and Morgan Lehman Gallery
Estimated Retail Value: $5,000
Starting Bid: $2,500
Garden is a compelling example of Ruby Palmer’s distinctive ability to translate our lived experience with nature into richly layered, visually arresting compositions. A work from her recent solo show Garden Theory at Morgan Lehman Gallery, this painting expresses nature’s delightful binaries: it is at once immersive and structured, intuitive yet rigorously composed. Palmer’s surfaces draw the viewer into a dynamic field where form, memory, and perception continuously shift—an experience that deepens over time. Her practice, grounded in years of attentive observation, daily walks, and a refined painterly language, places her squarely in a generation of artists rethinking landscape and abstraction with urgency and nuance.
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Ruby Palmer
Ruby Palmer (b. 1996, London, UK; works in Red Hook, NY) grew up in rural Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. She received a BA in Painting and Drawing from Hampshire College and an MFA from School of Visual Arts. In 1999, she was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant for Painters and Sculptors. Palmer has presented solo and group exhibitions at Morgan Lehman Gallery, Turley Gallery, Onna House, and numerous institutions and venues including Opalka Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, LABspace, Smack Mellon, Exit Art, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum. In 2025, she completed a 320-square-foot permanent wall sculpture at Albany International Airport, commissioned by Southwest Air and fabricated from recycled airplane leather. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artforum, and House Beautiful, among others, and is held in private and corporate collections including Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, and Capital Group. Palmer lives in Rhinecliff, NY, and works in Red Hook, NY.
