Sterling Ruby Sculpture

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Sterling ruby sculpture.

The exhibition will be on view at the nasher february 2 april 21 2019 and will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue featuring a new essay sterling ruby and the. Sterling ruby is a contemporary american artist. American artist sterling ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art. Often his work is presented in large and densely packed installations.

Sterling ruby born january 21 1972 is an american artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics painting drawing collage sculpture video and textiles. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources including marginalized societies maximum security prisons modernist architecture artefacts and antiquities graffiti waste and consumption and urban gangs. Organized by the nasher sculpture center sterling ruby. The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban.

Sterling ruby is co presented with institute of contemporary art miami and is accompanied by an illustrated scholarly catalogue edited by alex gartenfeld and eva respini with a conversation between ruby and isabelle graw. Sculpture is the first museum survey of ruby s work in the medium featuring nearly thirty sculptures ranging from the intimate to the monumental. Published with delmonico prestel the catalogue features essays that consider ruby s work amidst the contemporary art. Sterling ruby s first museum survey in the u s.

The 24 foot tall tapers of sterling ruby s bronze sculpture double candle was one of a pair of monumental sculptures installed in the interim to be part of a slightly redesigned and reshuffled. These hybrid constructions which hover between painting and sculpture bear witness to ruby s deep rooted commitment to the physical act of making and freedom of expression in its purest form. See available paintings sculpture and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Sterling ruby s work engages with issues related to autobiography art history and the violence and pressures within society.

Employing diverse aesthetic strategies and mediums including sculpture drawing collage ceramics painting and video he examines the tensions between fluidity and stasis expressionism and minimalism the abject and the pristine. When viewed through the prism of time past present and future sterling ruby s assemblages can be read in multiple ways.