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The Work
Ruffner's AR App
Augmented Reality
Glass
Metal and Glass
Paintings
Commissions
Public Art
Installations
Books
Works on Paper
Resume
Museum Collections
Public Collections
Solo Exhibitions
Installations
Selected Group Exhibitions
Public Art
Honors
Lectures
Teaching/Residencies
Other Professional Experience
Education
Articles in Print
Online Articles
Inclusion in These Books
Authored Publications
The Movie
Press
SOLA Non-profit
Contact
The Work
Glass
Glass
Ruffner pioneered using lampworked glass as an art form. Below is a selection of her work from the last four decades.
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Wine Triangulation
‘Reading-“isms”
Beauty and the Universe
The Support of Shadows
Tisket Tasket Basket
Different Scales of Rhythm
Artist's Diving Rod
What Happens When you Squeeze a Goldfish
Pablo Petals
The Feeling of Hurray
One Way To Birth A Gravitational Wave
Catalogue From the Woods
Neptune's Bento Box
A Gift of a Lily Pond
Bouquet of Muses
Celestial Pattern Recognition
Celebration Requires Ornamentation, or the History of The Party Bow
Graffiti--Then and Now
The Real Reason Morning Glory Climbs
The Beautiful Idea of Peace made the Gardener's Heart Take Flight
Extreme Pollinators
Pollyanna's Jolly Roger
The Origin Myth of the Gourds
Giggle Tornado
Why Polka Dot Flowers? Because Making Aesthetic Choices is Never Black and White
Romance in the Garden Commission
Le Petit Lapin Foux Foux
The Art Lilies of Summer
Curly Demoiselles
Tropical Iceberg
The Origins of Watercolors
Recognition Is Not Comprehension
Gravity as the Florist
Floral Mathematics
How Spring Feels
The Infinite Art Armadillo
The Secret to Flourishing
What if the Painting was in the Brush?
Orchid Window
My Favorite Breakfast
The Burden of Beauty
Repetitive Patterns in Petals and Scales
Tornado Tendrils
2D and 3D Decorative Dewdrops
Egyptian Topiary
The Evolutionary Stages Of A Sunflower
Architecture From Pollen
Orchard Window
Repetitive In Petal and Scale
Tornado-Spotted Vegetation
Learning To Be A Tornado
The Shared Gene Of Porcupines And Pineapples
Jordon's Basket
Art Splicing Equipment
Learning to be a Still Life
Art Is The Queen Of My Universe
Floral Headed
Celestial Implications of Art on Bloom
Stepping over the Constraints of Decoration III
Blue Melody Of A Spiny Arbor
Dinner Bouquet
Write Your Own Story
Pastiching Pablo
3D Floral Painting
Calligraphic In Form- Floral Painting
Pointillistic Floral Painting
Stepping Over The Constraints Of Decoration II
Turning a Drop Into a Wellspring
Garden Transport
House Of Glorious Mornings
How Rain Gets In Clouds
Lifecycle of Lyrical Tattoo Bubbles
Out My Window
Wing Buggy
A Different Ripeness
Ab Ex Morning Glories
Aquarium Garden with a Tsunami Hat
Art Stands On the Shoulders of Nature
Drawing Is The Language Of Art
Gilding The Sunflower Basket
Abstract Expressionistic Flower Pot
Life Cycle of Glint
Making Flowers From Clouds
Dance of the Rainbow Trout
Evolution of the Mosaic
Fruit Bowl From the Garden of Ideas
Garden Pining
Inventing Flowers
When A Banana Gene meets an Ab-ex Gene
Envisioning Venice
Fish Ladder
How to Make Your Tendrils Curly
Irresistible Lure 0f Wisdom Beauty
Phasing the Moon
Stepping Over the Constraints of Decoration I
Studio Window
Sunflower in Moonlight
Symbolic Languages of Love Two
Virtual Musician
Wall Flower
Anatomy of a Puddle
Aroma Therapy Neckpiece
Dewdrop Server
Having an Idea
Making Star Patterns
Precious Abundance
Wine Vase
Where Do Your Ideas Come From
Belle Self Portrait
Botanical Pillars
Mini Shrine
Not So Still Life II
Preciousness Greenhouse
The Flow
What is Really Tying
Abex vs. Still Life
Art Game
Art Mountains
Beauty is an Arbitrary Choice
Bountiful Flying Art Clouds
Cyclical Nature of Floral Fashion
Dizzying Effects of Modernism
Dreams
East Coast West Coast
Evolution of Abstraction
Frilly Modernism
Graphics Tidal Wave
Interior Landscape
Pablo Parts
Planet with Multiple Equators
Rose Training
Smelling Surprise Flower Basket
Starship
Symbolic Language of Love
Tempest in A Spoon
Think with Your Heart
Turning Over a New Bowl of Cherries
Vineyard Visions
Virtual Fasteners
What's the Point
Beautiful Protection
Beauty Protects My Nest
Beauty Vessel
Brain Brakes
Building A Garden
Classic Bubbles
Danmeyer House
Decorative Leaf Igloo
Ecstacy of the Hands
Garden of Infinity
If Art Could Fly
Invention of Leaves
Methods of Heart Protection
Mobility
Morphing Up the Evolutionary Ladder
Plenty of Moonlight
Restructuring A Still Life
School of Thoughts
Shape Shifter
Still Life Wearing A Necklace
Structural Leaves
The Art Question
Time To Fall In Love
Tractor Pull
Water Is Outside the Vase
Who Says wine Doesn't Grow On Trees
Wide Load Flower Scooter
Table Blossom
Growth
Art Bubbles
Art is a Window of Transcendence
Beauty Net
Coloring the Waves
Constructing a Painting
Content is the Narrative
Distillation
Floozy Blossom
Garden Jewlery
Garden Thoughts
Hemisphere of the Brain
Holly Box
Knowledge of Hands
Lilly Puddle
Making A Ray of Sun
Norton Museum Commission
Origin of Color
Regarding Beauty
Seahorse
Secrets of Winemaking
Storms in the Art World
Sweet Bowl
Tasty Frieze
Ubiquitous Gift
Vase For Starbuds
Vessel Decoration
What is a Style?
Why I Love Seattle
Aliteration
Beauty Is A Human Construct
Brain Series Language
Burning Desire to Communicate
Composing
Decoration
Don't Throw Gemstones at Glass Houses
Earthquake Protection
Elements of a Still Life II
Envisioning A Still Life
Four Traditional Subjects
Fragrance Neck Piece
Fruits of My Inspiration
Interconnected Brain
Key To My Happiness Is Creativity
Language
Myth of the Rainbow
Obsessions
Opulent Brain
Protection Of-By Creativity
Stormy Weather in the Art World
Supporting the Festival of the Lights
Time
Transportation Holds the Country Together
Visually Cold
Wired House
Mechanics of Flight
A Self Image
Alternative Locomotion
Anderson Commission II
Art Making
Balanced Diet
Classic
Collaboration
Coping with the Fountain of Youth
Creativity's Roots
Elements of a Still Life I
Envisioning Architecture
Envisioning the Alphabet
Envisioning the Concept of Flight
Envisioning the Concept of Light
Envisioning the Concept of Time
Envisioning the Creation of Pattern
Envisioning The Weather
Finding Sources
Incognito Ergo Sum
Internet and Web
Jumping Through Hoops
Learning to Cat Paddle
Mechanics of the Brain
Nature vs. Nurture
Online or On the Phone
Personal Adornment
Power of the Mind
Reading
Support of the Arts
Table of Content
Theory of Applied Decoration
Tools
Trick Dog
Underwater Camouflage
Underwater Ornament
War and Peace
Your Code
A Different A Frame
Allegory of Head and Heart
An Urn of Seashell Wine
Anderson Commission I
Another Way for the Chicken to Cross the Road
Ascension Of Woman
Being Fruitful
Chicken Brainstorm
Choosing The Appropriate Accessories
Choosing The Appropriate Light for Flowers
Circuitous Path
Container and the Contained
Garden Party
Head In the Treetops Feet in the Teatops
Hedging My Bets
How Can I Jump Rope w-A Martian On My Head
Iced Fruit
Ideal Summer
It's All In How You View It
Martian Theory Of Balance
My Cross Country Relationship
Nature and the Environment
Now You See It
On The Wings of Geometry
Original Cab
Piece of Cake
Rainbow in the Trout
Rainmaking
Roots
Secret to Smooth Sailing
Sum of the Parts
Unusual Growth Patterns
Viewing The Seasons
What a Pear
What's In A Hurricane
Why Ropes Coil
Absolut Vodka Ad
Another Pretty Face
Another Type of Object Alphabet
Architecture Utilizing Bamboo, Clouds, Ivy
Art Part Hors d'Ovevres
Art Reigns
Cherries, Snowflakes, and Shirt of Course
Cool Dude
Even Nectarines Can't Protect a Broken Heart
Feasting
Fish Teepee
Flaming Snowman
Flying Jugs
Fruitful Goddesses of the Diamond Rings
Good Luck Charm Bracelet
Hemisphere of the Brain Containing Pattern
Hot Still Life
Jailhouse Math
Left Side of the Brain
Mating Dance of Salomes Pegasus
Phantom of the Opera
Red Dice Question
Secret of Eye Hand Coordination
Still Alive
Tasty Frieze Escaping From the Pyramid
Underwater Teepee
Urnscape
Vineyard Window
What If Flowers Could Spin Webs
What's Really In the Space Between Integers
Who Says Art Doesn't Grow on Trees
Why Not?
Your Tongue Is Like a Peach
Aladdin's Slipper
Barrie of Matisse
Don Quixote Eat Your Heart Out
Forest of Life
Fruit Pinwheel
Good Luck Urn
Tree of Life
Art Rains
Beauty's Handiwork
Before and After
Blue Bell Black Flower
Border Peach
Botanical Infinite
Boy Bridge
Drama of Chaos
Eve and Pink Sticks
Exotic Fragment Feeling
Flower Finger
Gift Box from the Boys Including Ball
Gliding of the Cage
Golden Bow
Grand Oh
History of Surrealism
Inventing the Music of Beauty
Inventions of Games You Shouldn't Bet On
Jewels Spring
Last of the Beauties
Machine in the Landscape
Paramecium of Beauty
Playing Under the Arbor Torpedo
Pondering Women Yellow Feather
Propeller of Beauty
Protect Your Inner Landscape
Red Cross, Bean Dish
Red Flower, Falling Back
Red Light, Green Light
Serpent Harp
Sources of Creativity
Summerhead
Various Possibilities of Architecture
What's at Your Fingertips
What's in Those Books?
Wild Indian
Art Guts
Beauty as Daphne
Beauty as Drama
Beauty as Ideas
Beauty as Infinity
Beauty as Leda
Beauty as Medusa
Beauty as Solome
Beauty as the Decorative Arts
Beauty as the Muses
Beauty as the Passion Triumphing over Intellect
Beauty as the Vices and the Virtues
Beauty Being Created by Art
Beauty Deconstructing Portraiture
Beauty Expanding the Concept of Art
Beaty Multiplies the Jugs and Fishes
Beauty Teaching the Past
Beauty's Alter Ego as a Tornado
Beauty's Inspiration
Beauty's Landscape vs. Architecture Dance
Falling Nectarine Drops
First Step of Creativity
Invention for Determining your Heart's Desire
Invention for Improving Internal Clarity
La Donna Mobili
Languages of Beauty Vol. 1
Languages of Beauty Vol. 2
Not So Still Life I
Passions of the Hours
Power of Words to Invent Beauty
Purpose of Ornamentation
Self Portrait with Lampworking Dictionary
Sic Tornados of Consequence
Some Thoughts on Relationships
Soon to be Still Life
Stella at the Luovre
The Origin of Color
Toys of Art History
Urban Planning
Viewer and the Viewed
Way You Make Me Feel
Absolut Vodka Commission
An Art Dream
An Opinionated House
An X-Ray Vision
Architecture Morte
Art Directed by Life
Baudrillard's Pony
Beaut Moving Into Arts Neighbor
Beauty Fleeing the Raft of the Medusa
Beauty Reclining on the Barge of Beliefs
Beauty Surfing Through a Still Life
Beginning Tornado
Big Flat Fish Skyscraper Bone
Burdens of Art Plowing the Fields
City of Broad Shoulders
Debate Over the Origin of the
Dreamboat
Dress Me
Drive-In of my Motivations
Floating Objects of Desire
Flying Buttress
Fractal Geometers
Goddess of the Thanksgiving Day Parade
Handleabra
Herman Nootics
If Words Were Horses
Louge Herbivore
Moonlight Sail with Golden
Moving to the next Sculptures
Re-writing the Building Code
Roots-Evolution-Destination
Stilled Life
Still Life with Architecture
The Bower you Unlocked
Tornado of the Heart Cast out of the Conversation
Tunnel of Love Wears Heartbreak Pajamas
Untitled Red Urn
Untitled Standing Fish
Untitled Urn with Fish
Venus Disguised as a Pool Shark
Your Heart is a Loaded Snake
Melting Evolutionary Theories
Beauty Learning from the Past
Beauty Offering Simulacrumbs to Vocabulary
Beauth Trudy
Debate Over the Origin of the Planets
Goddess of the Neon Tetras Shows off her New Oven Mitts
History of Juggling in Egyptian Gardens
I Still Love Picasso
If You Square Dance with your Fears
Juggler of my Heart in Person
Le Bateau Irre
Making Peace with Green
Pump Fish Red Dye
Seeing Arizona
Still Life with Skyscrapers
The Fin De Seattle Earthquake
Tornado Wearing a Necklace
Underwater Florist
Unified Playing Field Theory
The Birth of Caviar
Driving Across the USA
Glass America Coupon
Love is Blind, Ugly
Love is the Opening Door, haha
My Pick up Truck in the Garden
Olf 4 Eyes Goes to Family Reunion
Pataphysician's Doorknob
Surrealists Build a Float
Spotted Fever
Florida House
Ghost Turnip in the Sky or What I Saw When I Fell off the Turnip Truck
Parallel Universe: Equinox
Parallel Universe
Parallel Universe: Flower
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Dream Gate
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Piet's House
Shrine Series: Temple
Parallel Universe Series: 70 degrees in December
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Negotiations with Eve
Parallel Universe Series: Treble Clef
Corsage
Everything but Howling Dogs
Parallel Universe Series: Starry Night
Shrine Series" Shrine 2
For the High Museum
Ocean Form
Parallel Universe Series: Overcast
Parallel Universe Series: Piet's House
Pink Box
Sea Shape
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Still Glass
Blue Box
Dancing Box #19
Dancing Box #23
Dancing Box #32
Still Life
Dancing Box #24
Dancing Box #11
Dancing Box #21
Dancing Box #22
My New Sailboard
Dancing Box 11
Dancing Box 33
Dancing Box 37
Dancing Box 1
Beauty as Athena, Eve, and Pandora
Beauty Lassoing the Tornados of the Heart
Road to Architecture is Paved with Chandeliers
Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
The History of Math goes to New Orleans
Shrine Series: Reliquary
Parallel Universe Series: Birthday
Eat Your Hat
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