Exploring materials

• • Kris adapts any material and technique to his imaginative process
• • He loves working with recycled or recovered materials
• • He brings out the expressive potential of structure, materials and colour

A multifaceted artist and designer, Kris Ruhs began his exploration into art and craftsmanship in New York City in the 1970s, while attending the School of Visual Arts. “I'd been involved in art ever since I was young because my mother painted scenery for theatre and dance. The School of Visual Arts was the big turning point in my life. I used to spend almost all my days in school; I took everything from painting and sculpture to photography, filmmaking... Basically that’s where I started experimenting with art.” He began his first series of sculptures inspired by the wood discarded in the streets next to his studio in lower Broadway. In the 1990s he settled in Milan, where he continues to experiment with clay, wood, metal, silver, paper, textiles and light.