Kris Andrew Ruhs was born in Queens, New York, on March 7, 1952, from a family of German extraction.

Old wood is cut, scraped, carved, painted over and burned to give a new surface and shape that carries a deep, metaphorical weight.

[20][21][22][23] He creates jewelry art pieces in ebony, brass, silver and gold for collectors and designers [24][25][26][27] with the same dimensional aspects as his other artworks.

In the late 1990s Ruhs starts a studio in Paris in the 18th district, an industrial metal-framed building of the Eiffel period.

As he continued to pursue his personal art, his reputation as a designer leads to several assignments around the world [28][29] [30][31][32] [33] Media related to Kris Ruhs at Wikimedia Commons