Richard Ruina

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had a left hemisphere stroke in 1997, when she was 44. Her pre-stroke art was somewhat conceptual, even ideological, but her subsequent work, described as raw, intuitive and flowing, feels to her different. She says there is ‘a new ease in my process. I did not feel I had to intellectualize away my every move and an extreme amount of struggle faded away. A freer, more enjoyable state of painting existed far different than in my previous work.’
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World
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