Abstract painting in gold and silver leaf

BarbaraCarruth

Paintings in acrylic, gold leaf and silver leaf, shaped by process, found materials and happenstance. MFA, University of California, Irvine.

View the works Inquire

From the collection

See all 9 works

Gold Untitled 10 by Barbara Carruth, seen at an angle — **Gold Untitled 10**202348 × 24 inAvailable

Gold Untitled 9 by Barbara Carruth — **Gold Untitled 10**202348 × 24 inAvailable

Scroll to view the collection

Selected works

The paintings

Every piece with its title, year, size and materials. Tap a work to see it larger, and up close.

Up close

Leaf, light and surface.

Each surface starts as an acrylic underpainting. Then comes the leaf, gold and silver, and it shifts as the light moves across it.

Barbara Carruth at work on a painting in her studio — In the studio

About the artist

Abstraction, driven by process.

Barbara Carruth earned her MFA at the University of California, Irvine, where she studied under Ed Moses and Light and Space artists Craig Kauffman, Robert Irwin and Larry Bell.

The “cool school” of Southern California shows in her work, yet her style takes the abstraction out of Abstract Expressionism. Each piece is purely process driven: it begins with found materials and grows through experimentation and happenstance.

“Possessing this knowledge, the viewer must confront their own imagination, acknowledging that they must either take responsibility for ascribing meaning to the work or accept the lack thereof.”
From the artist’s statement