Essay in catalogue to accompany

Ruby Osorio: Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far and Away)
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, March 18 - July 17, 2005

Laguna Art Museum, October 30, 2005-February 19, 2006

Documented here is Los Angeles-based artist Ruby Osorio's creation, A Story of a Girl (Who Awakes Far, Far Away); an enchanting magical environment based on her unique drawings and works on paper. This series of gouache paintings incorporates thread and ink and presents this young artist's exploration into female identity and more tellingly, the construction of that identity through what is becoming a hallmark of her hand--whimsy with a punch. In this new series of painterly drawings Osorio pushes the range of her work in scale, medium, and content; thus transforming the gallery into a delicate room that presents a "feminine aesthetic" through the use of cartoon-like drawings of women, girls, animals, objects, and natural landscapes (some directly on the wall) that grow from tiny thumbnail sketches to large mural-sized narratives. The images within and the design of this book and the limited edition reference the delicacy and preciousness of Osorio's hand and concepts. Edited by Shannon Fitzgerald.

Essays by Shannon Fitzgerald, Tyler Stallings and Sue Spaid. Foreword by Paul Ha.

Hardcover: 66 pages

Publisher: Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (April 2005)

ISBN: 0971219559

Dimensions: 5.7 x 8.0 x 0.5 inches

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