Ruby May Quilter's debut with Rusha & Co. presents a series of paintings derived from Polaroid self-portraits that blur the line between identity and invention. Working across canvas with a distinctive formal rigor, Quilter constructs scenes of elaborate disguise and theatrical self-presentation, where the artist appears as both subject and cipher. Her figures are cloaked in costume, obscured by shadow, or caught in moments of ambiguous vulnerability—gestures that resist straightforward legibility.
