Out of the Woods Heather Bause Rubinstein

Heather Bause Rubinstein (b. 1975, US) presents Out of the Woods, her first solo exhibition in New York and her first solo exhibition with Ruttkowski;68.

To be out of the woods is to emerge from uncertainty — beyond the tangle of branches where we lose our way, and out from the refuge where we gather strength. Heather Bause Rubinstein’s recent series embraces this paradox, transforming the forest into a metaphor for both struggle and becoming.
In recent years, Bause Rubinstein’s practice has carried an urgency of gesture, a restless search marked by fragility and resilience. In these paintings, that urgency takes shape, unfolding in abstractions that dissolve the natural world into rhythm and movement.Here, the woods are not simply trees but monumental “inscapes” that hold the tensions of the physical and inner worlds. Shadows and light. Danger and sanctuary. Bause Rubinstein’s abstractions cast the forest as a place of discovery and rediscovery, where losing the path can mean finding a truer one.

With her first solo exhibition in New York, Heather Bause Rubinstein offers a vision of emergence: not a final arrival, but an opening onto what comes next.

Artist talk         2025/10/23       6.30 pm