Sterling Ruby Sculpture

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 sculpture.

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. The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban. Sterling ruby s first museum survey in the u s. 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.

Sterling ruby s work engages with issues related to autobiography art history and the violence and pressures within society. 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. Sterling ruby is a contemporary american artist. 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.

Often his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. Sculpture is the first museum survey of ruby s work in the medium featuring nearly thirty sculptures ranging from the intimate to the monumental. See available paintings sculpture and works on paper for sale and learn about the artist. Organized by the nasher sculpture center sterling ruby.

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. Will show the past 20 years of his wild evocative art practice from jagged ceramic basins to enigmatic mobiles. Find an in depth biography exhibitions original artworks for sale the latest news and sold auction prices. Published with delmonico prestel the catalogue features essays that consider ruby s work amidst the contemporary art.

View sterling ruby s 335 artworks on artnet. American artist sterling ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art.