About David Ruth

David Ruth is an Oakland, California based glass sculptor that has been making large-scale cast glass sculptures and cast glass architectural features for over 30 years. Often featuring bright colors and contrasting polished surfaces with rough textures, the work has been featured in architecture, museums, and in galleries around the world.

In 2006 Ruth received an award from the National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program for travel to Palmer Station, Antarctica. The exploration and work from this residency would become the foundation to his most recent work: Geologic Editions and Sculpture. This body of work focuses on geology and climate expressed through cast glass usually supported by metal. 

When geology and ice are translated into glass and put in the light, the patterns refract the daily sun and become time markers for our planetary existence.  The light transmitting through the glass becomes an indicator of time, in the day, year,  the course of human activity, and the formation of the rock… extending back deep in history.  Watching the work change it becomes an interactive experience where time itself stretches and contracts.