Sterling Ruby Artworks

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.

Sterling ruby artworks.

7224 2020 wood and paint 222 3 x 76 2 x 24 1 cm xavier hufkens contact gallery. Sterling ruby drftrs 5033 2014 collage and paint on paper. Will show the past 20 years of his wild evocative art practice from jagged ceramic basins to enigmatic mobiles. Sterling ruby is a contemporary american artist.

The master s tools will never dismantle the master s house by audre lorde audre lorde was a black lesbian feminist writer and civil rights activist born in 1934. View sterling ruby s 335 artworks on artnet. One of one reads the label sewn into the. The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban.

Sterling ruby s work engages with issues related to autobiography art history and the violence and pressures within society. Often his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. Published with delmonico prestel the catalogue features essays that consider ruby s work amidst the contemporary art. American artist sterling ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art.

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. His art is collected by raf simons and his designs are worn by timothée chalamet. Sterling ruby a multidisciplinary artist who makes urethane and bronze sculptures hallucinatory color field canvases and handmade ceramics addresses the conflict between individual desire and social structure and the influence of institutional architecture both literal and figurative on human behavior and psychology in 2011 ruby presented vampire an exhibition that explored the. Courtesy of sterling ruby 4.

Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. 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. At a time when our reading lists are in constant need of rejuvenation sterling ruby explains the seminal books that inspired his latest collection of wearable artworks. See available paintings sculpture and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist.

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.