Glamour called her work “an explosion of controversy,” Jane Goodall wrote of it, “...powerful and important,” and fans express their inspired impressions: “Ruby Roth is a mood.” Featured on Today, CNN, and other major media outlets, Ruby Roth is an award-winning artist as well as the world’s leading author-illustrator of a series of children’s books. Her figurative drawings and paintings, though a lifelong practice, are more newly emergent and rare in the public sphere. In Roth’s life and art, opposites play in harmony. She was raised between the bustle of Los Angeles and lush nature of Kauai, Hawaii. Beginning to draw figures as a small child, art became a vital outlet for pain during the 13 years she wore a backbrace for scoliosis—her depictions of calm and collected or powerful and sometimes ferocious women, a vicarious release. From revolutionary children’s books to evocative and erotic figurative drawings and paintings, Roth weaves together a world of seemingly divergent subjects. But in the context of her dualistic nature and penchant for opposing forces, the through-line becomes clear: paralleling her own journeys, Roth’s subjects are all finding their way through dimensions of darkness and light, bondage and freedom, apocalypse and utopia, life and death forces—in both the physical and spiritual senses, always seeking a sacred balance.