Exhibitions

Brit Ruggirello

Blue Hotel

Brit Ruggirello is interested in interpersonal relationships, digital representation, party aesthetics, and the interior design of Las Vegas hotels.

Brit Ruggirello. Blue Hotel, Series 1, Episode 1, 2016. Archival inkjet print, wall paint, gradient rug, chair, mannequin, fake flowers, mini lava lamp, ribbon, balloons, and balloon weight.
  • October 6 - 27, 2016
  • Opening: Thursday, October 6

Ruggirello’s installations, or Mood Boards, commemorate the everyday – objects, events, people, and animals – employing human scale assemblage and collage as well as photographic documentation that reinforces the physicality of the work.

She lives in a house called Blue Hotel. Her exhibition of the same name references the personalities of this unique environment, negotiating between the imagined and the real, with found objects, vibrantly colored light bulbs, pastel gradients, and digitally altered images.


Brit Ruggirello. Blue Hotel, 2016. Installation view. Photo: Jueqian Fang Photography
Brit Ruggirello. Blue Hotel, 2016. Installation view. Photo: Jueqian Fang Photography
Brit Ruggirello. Blue Hotel, 2016. Installation view. Photo: Jueqian Fang Photography

About the Artist

Brit Ruggirello received her BFA from the University of Washington and currently lives and works in Seattle. She collaborates with Jueqian Fang as artist duo Mystical Orchid and David Nielsen in the experimental band Up North. She has exhibited her work locally and internationally, in such venues as Gallery 295, Vancouver, BC; Whatcom Museum, Bellingham; Veronica, Seattle; and GLASSBOX, Seattle.