Ruby Dachis (b.2003, Austin TX) is an Austin raised, Brooklyn based visual artist and writer.

Dachis largely works figuratively, excavating and reconstructing personal or found printed and digital media primarily through painting and drawing.

Her practice spans writing, painting, drawing, reading, sculpting, creative direction, ephemeral public installation, listening, and printmaking.

Dachis attended high school at Saint Ann’s School, in Brooklyn, NY, and earned her B.A. In English, and with Honors in Studio Art, from Wesleyan University. Her work has been featured in the Saint Ann’s RAM, the Saint Ann’s High School Literary Magazine, the Saint Ann’s Art Journal, the Oberlin College Wilder Voice, and The Lavender, Wesleyan University’s poetry, prose, and arts magazine.

Ruby answers signals and calls. laws of magnetics — that is, undeniable pulls. Drawing as in compelling. Drawing as in invoking. Drawing as in heaving from the depths of a well.