Will show the past 20 years of his wild evocative art practice from jagged ceramic basins to enigmatic mobiles.
Sculpture sterling ruby ceramics.
Ceramics is the first museum exhibition to focus on the ceramic works of los angeles based artist 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.
Ceramics june 9 september 9 2018 i.
Sterling ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice which encompasses painting ceramics collage video and photography textiles sculpture and installations.
Working in a wide range of media from the traditional to the unconventional ruby has created an oeuvre that while remarkably diverse is firmly rooted within a.
Sterling ruby s first museum survey in the u s.
The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban.
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.
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.
Most of what he does is supersized though this eclectic large scale practice is rooted in his approach to smaller scale ceramic sculptures the focus of sterling ruby.
Projects in fabric including clothing cast iron stoves savaged submarines prison buses cardboard collages and intimate drawings fill his studio.
Sterling ruby s areas of interest are numerous and his artistic output is prodigious.
In addition to ceramics his practice incorporates fabric found metal sculpture.
Ceramics organized by the des moines art center and on view at the museum of arts and design through march 17 2019.
Ruby s larger body of work includes a wide range of formats many with a relationship to craft traditions both studio and amateur.
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.
