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.