Ruth Bauer Neustadter
Prison bars, chains, locks, bones, rusty nails, a broken heart, fear, anxiety, twistedness and weightlessness are all part of this woman's reality or imagination. Both are terrible. Either she is literally behind bars for not shutting up or not speaking up, because she fears what could happen to her if she opens her mouth and tells the world what is being done to her. Secrets abound. . . . but she still wants the world to know. Her entire life, shutting up has been her path. Enough. . . . Remove the chains, the lock. Let me begin to heal my heart. Hear me. I speak.
Ruth Bauer Neustadter has worked in several art forms throughout her long career in the arts. She was originally a modern dancer and choreographer who studied at Bennington College but her major focus at this time is the visual arts, creating bodies of work in sculpture, collage, cement paintings, mixed media paintings and found objects. Much of her recent work deals with environmental and political issues.
Bauer Neustadter's work has been exhibited at The Montclair, Hunterdon, Jersey City, Belskie and Newark Museums. She has had solo and group shows throughout the New York metropolitan area including Ceres Gallery, The Sylvia Wald + Po Kim Gallery, Prince Street Gallery, The Piermont Fine Arts Gallery, all in New York. She was also Artist-in- Residence at The Newark Museum. Her studio is in Hackensack, NJ.
Presently, she is the founder and curator of The Gallery at HACPAC, and The Hackensack Performing Arts Center.
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