FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 2024
Boss Inside: Ruby Roth book signing and pop-up exhibition at The Desmond Tower in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA – Artist and writer Ruby Roth debuts Boss Inside, a pop-up-exhibition and book signing event, presented by Wienholt Projects, for the release of her new illustrated memoir, Boss Inside: A Reclamation of the Feminine, at The Desmond Tower in Los Angeles. The exhibition opens on January 20, 2024, from 4:00 – 10:00 PM, with an artist talk at 6:00 PM. The exhibition will be on view through January 27, 2024.
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A best-selling author-illustrator who made worldwide headlines with her controversial children’s books, Roth recently released a new illustrated memoir about the shocking side of her personal life she kept hidden during her time in the spotlight. Boss Inside is a revealing collection of private journal entries, artwork, and photographs over a four year period that chronicles the evolution and disintegration of a 14-year relationship with her first mentor and life partner whose daughter she helped raise, along with the aftermath as she reclaimed her life—her art, career, femininity, sexuality, and relationship to men and masculinity.
A selection of over 15 original drawings that appear in the book will be exhibited in a gallery space at The Desmond Tower. These artworks speak to Roth’s larger explorations of the inner lives of women, feminism, female rage, the nude figure, and more. During the opening on January 20, 2024, the artist will also be in conversation discussing her art practice and new book, starting at 6:00 PM.
Details
Boss Inside Book Signing:
January 20, 2024, 4:00 – 8:00 PM
Artist talk:
January 20, 2024, 6:00 PM
Exhibition on view:
January 20, 2024 – January 27, 2024
Wienholt Projects
5500 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles Suite 102, CA 90036
About Boss Inside
Ruby Roth has been a renowned author-illustrator and revered speaker known by an international niche for her leading children’s books. But her path was also acutely defined by her private life and an identity-defining relationship with her first art mentor, who became her life partner for more than a decade. Then, at age 34, Roth pulled the rug out from under her familial life and left the 14-year relationship that had defined her entire adulthood. The shift was a personal apocalypse and required a profound turn in focus, from utter matrimonial dependence to self-determined autonomy. “I superbombed my life,” she wrote, “and created a body of work in the void of the detonation. What came out were girl gods, wild women, wise women; and an understanding that in all dimensions—personal, familial, social, political, environmental, and cosmic—ashes are always the ingredients for new forms.”
Boss Inside is a revealing collection of artist Ruby Roth’s deeply private journal entries, artwork, and photographs from 2016 to 2020 as she left a 14-year identity-defining relationship that had shaped her adulthood. It chronicles the evolution and disintegration of a first love and Roth’s fierce, sacred, and often broiling path toward the reclamation of her femininity, sexuality, and creativity, as she navigates jelling independence, a diverging career, and new relationships to men and masculinity itself. Free will makes her body a new home, the locus through which she begins drawing subject matter and a redefinition of self as she depicts a manifested relationship with a “cowboy from Texas,” an introduction to rage, her brutal realizations of loss, and the healing processes that ushered her along, determined to let everything she felt be the muse of transformation.
Boss Inside: A Reclamation of the Feminine
180 pp, 8.5 x 11 inches//hardcover
About Ruby Roth
Ruby Roth’s work is defined by the female form and depicts the inner lives of women through emotionally visceral representations of the bodies they inhabit.
For the past several years, amidst a radical transition from a decade of familial life as a best-selling children’s book author-illustrator to self-determined independence as a female artist, Roth has explored the deep end of the feminine spectrum and its archetypes.
Roth’s work often features solitary women navigating inner and outer wildernesses. In vast emptiness, surrounded by hints of nature, or in quiet communion with the moon, her wild women and “girl gods” find their way through physical and spiritual dimensions of darkness and light, bondage and freedom, apocalypse and utopia, life and death—turning either nourishing or toxic forces into acts of transmutation.
Roth has been a keen observer of the body since childhood, having been diagnosed with Scoliosis that required 15 years of aggressive and painful treatment. Rooted in academic anatomy and pop surrealism, her paintings, drawings, and illustrations with live figures exaggerate and distort the female form in order to reflect vessels of powerful, feminine processing.
Roth lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Website: https://rubyroth.co/
Instagram: @ruby_roth
