: SELECTED PRESS / ESSAYS
[click on links to read selected essays]
JAMAICA CENTER FOR ARTS & LEARNING
An Interview with José Ruiz
By Erin Donnelly
May 21, 2007
THE DETROITER
F*CK YOU/ Commentary, Criticism
By Nick Sousanis
06/21/07
WASHINGTON POST
Dark Displays of the American Dream / G Fine Art Exhibit Bares The Underbelly of Privilege (excerpt)
By Jessica Dawson
Saturday, June 9, 2007; Page C02
THE WASHINGTON POST
Latino Artists in the Right 'Directions' (excerpt)
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, June 8, 2007; Page WE44
WASHINGTON POST
The 'Fine Art' of Spoofing the Art World
By Jessica Dawson
Saturday, May 26, 2007; Page C02
WASHINGTON POST
Give a Bit, Take a Lot
By Bob Massey
Thursday, September 7, 2006; Express; Page E11
WASHINGTON POST
Dynamic Duos At G Fine Art
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, July 8, 2005; Page WE33
WASHINGTON POST
Here and Now
By Blake Gopnik
Sunday, July 3, 2005; Page N02
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Underwriting
By Mark Jenkins
June 24, 2005
THINKING ABOUT ART
Jose Ruiz at G Fine Art
By J.T. Kirkland
Monday, June 13, 2005
PRETORIA ART MUSEUM
Take Me to the River (catalogue essay)
By Vivienne Lassman (curator)
May 2005
SECOND STREET GALLERY
DC Now (catalogue essay)
By Stacey Schmidt (curator)
October 2004
WASHINGTON POST
A Room With a Viewpoint: Decatur Blue’s Absurdist Art
By Jessica Dawson
Thursday, January 15, 2004
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Resolutionz
By Mark Jenkins
December 26, 2003
WASHINGTON POST
New Shows Breathe Life Into Area Galleries
By Michael O'Sullivan
Friday, September 26, 2003
THE GAZETTE
Baltimore Artist Wins First Trawick Prize for Sculptures
By Ellyn Pak
September 17, 2003
EL TIEMPO LATINO
Concurso impulsa a artistas contemporaneous locales
By Milagros Melendez-Vela
August 1, 2003; Page B7
McLEAN PROJECT FOR THE ARTS
Strictly Painting IV (curator’s essay)
By Deborah McLeod
June 2003
WASHINGTON POST
Decatur: An Intermittent Turn-On
By Jessica Dawson
Thursday, February 6, 2003; Page C05
DECATUR BLUE
DB Sides (catalogue essay)
By W.C. Richardson
December 2002
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Light Force
By Shauna Miller
May 3, 2002
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ARTS CENTER
Keywords for José Ruiz (catalogue essay)
By Stephanie Ellis (curator)
May 2002
WASHINGTON POST
At Decatur Blue, ‘Rooms’ With a Voyeur’s View
By Jessica Dawson
Thursday, January 3, 2002; Page C05
DECATUR BLUE
Distance (exhibition essay)
By J.W. Mahoney
January 2002
WASHINGTON FLYER
House of Blues
On U Street, five guys dream a little about D.C.’s alternative arts scene
By Margaret Foster
September/October 2001
WASHINGTON POST
Art Minus the Middleman
By Jessica Dawson
Thursday, November 30, 2000; Page C1
WASHINGTON CITY PAPER
Ménage á Cinq
By Jessica Dawson
April 14, 2000
ECOMUNDO
José Alvaro Ruiz, El arte y el fuego
Por Mirella Fernández C.
Julio 1999; Pagina 41
