Sterling Ruby Ceramics Book

Biography 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.

Sterling ruby ceramics book. Sterling ruby s first museum survey in the u s. Comprising two books housed in a slipcase acts tables was produced on the occasion of the ruby s 2019 exhibition at gagosian britannia street london. Having grown up in a craft oriented amish region he realized early on that his visual vocabulary derived mostly from crafts. Ruby s larger body of work includes a wide range of formats many with a relationship to craft traditions both studio and amateur.

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. Will show the past 20 years of his wild evocative art practice from jagged ceramic basins to enigmatic mobiles. Robert wedemeyer courtesy sterling ruby studio he first began incorporating rejects into his ceramics as an informative explosion of past things in the new. Ceramic 20 x 66 x 43 in.

Often his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. Acts tables is available for online reading from august 23 through september 21 as part of the from the library series. 1972 lives and works in los angeles. Ceramics is the first museum exhibition to focus on the ceramic works of los angeles based artist sterling ruby.

In 2014 his work was included in the whitney biennial the 10th gwangju biennale and the 9th taipei biennial. A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time who fuses art and fashion american artist sterling ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art.