Ruth Laskey is an American artist known for her Minimalist weavings[1] and grid paintings.
[3] She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1997 with a degree in Art History.
[4] Although Laskey has often grouped with fiber artists,[5] her real contribution has been to the discussion of painting.
[7] Laskey's weaving/paintings are created painstakingly, taking months to weave after first completing a planning stage of preliminary graph drawings.
[8] Laskey maintains rigorous control over the elements of her work—although she follows Minimalist methods of precise and orderly construction, her work is also predicated on the craft ethos of Modernist weavers like Anni Albers and Gunta Stölzl.