Clean & Sober Streets
Clean & Sober Streets
ruth stenstrom
Visual Artist, Art Therapist, Video and Multi-Media Work
My paintings mix figurative and abstract elements with poetic, mythic subject matter.
Recent works such as GraVitas (2005-2017) combine painting and digital photography.
My photography and video work have changed with the digital age.
I have a fascination with words, with uncertainty, happenstance, and the artistic interventions of others, which have turned into my series GraVitas.
I enjoy the transmutation of several images into one, a new alchemy of pixels and imagination.
From artificial art installations to thoughts about what it means to run through and out of time,
I like humor, beauty and mystery.
Art works best when it commands sustained looking in order to fathom its meaning. I enjoy duality, fragments of a whole and ambiguity, but then sometimes a rose is just a rose.
Since 1989 I have also directed the CASSA Arts Workshop, a therapeutic arts program for men and women in recovery at Clean & Sober Streets, Inc.
Ruth Stenstrom is featured in Potomac Art Therapy Association
May 2016 Art Therapist Spotlight
http://www.potomacarttherapy.org/art-therapist-spotlight.html
Pandemic Posters, Digital Art 2020