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.
Summer of Soul, Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
Recent works such as GraVitas I - IV 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.
Rock Star, Acrylic on Canvas, 2022
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.
Seaside, Acrylic & pastel on Canvas
Ruth Stenstrom, 2019
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.
CASSA is supported in part by the DC Commission for the Arts & Humanities and the National Endowment for Art
Ruth Stenstrom is featured in Potomac Art Therapy Association
May 2016 Art Therapist Spotlight
http://www.potomacarttherapy.org/art-therapist-spotlight.html
Pandemic Time Zone, Digital Art 2021
Self-Portrait, 1971
Ruth Stenstrom, 2021