Sterling Ruby

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Sterling Ruby

Born 1972
Nationality American
Field Artist, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Photography, Video, Performance
Training Art Center College of Design, The Art Institute of Chicago

Sterling Ruby is a American artist born in Bitburg, Germany in 1972. Ruby lives and works in Los Angeles. He holds a BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA.

Ruby engages directly with Minimalism's rhetoric of power[1] with visceral deconstructions and reconstructions of dominant forms and systems. He subjects the institutionalization of the Modernist project to a form of assault through bodily gestures and semantic scramblings, destabilizing the idea of transcendence via abstraction (often invoking the “unitary forms” of Robert Morris and subjecting them to the symbols of an otherwise anonymous public body).[2] Other work similarly deals with the refutation of gestalt using an expanded notion of collage, furthering interests in transference, transience and transgression as well as drawing connections between of transvestites, craft candles, body builders (gender crossing via extremes), prisons and gangs with a self-styled “Amorphous Law”.[3]

He has been exhibited at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (solo) (2008); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2008); The Drawing Center, New York (solo) (2008); The Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art (2007); Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (2006); The California Biennial (2006); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005/6); The Turin Triennial (2005/6); Aspen Art Museum (2005); Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam (2005); Tate Britain, London (2003); The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago (2003).

His work has been featured in Artforum, Art Review, Artnet, Flash Art, Frieze, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Modern Painters.

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  1. ^ Minimalism and the Rhetoric of Power
  2. ^ Holte, Michael Ned. “Sterling Ruby: Marc Foxx.” Artforum, December 2006: 315-316.
  3. ^ Hawkins, Richard. "Sterling Ruby: Long live the Amorphous Law." Flash Art, October 2006: 78-80.

[edit] Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

  • "SUPERMAX 2008", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • "Kiln Works", Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
  • "Chron", The Drawing Center, New York

2007

  • "Paintings & Benches", Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
  • "Slasher Posters & Pillow Works", Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
  • "Superoverpass", Foxy Production, New York
  • "Killing the Recondite", Metro Pictures

2006

  • "Interior Designer", Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
  • "Recombines", Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
  • "SUPERMAX 2006", Galerie Christian Nagel, Koln, Germany

[edit] Selected Group Exhibitions

2008

  • "Substraction", Deitch Projects, New York
  • "Stray Alchemists", Ullens Center, Beijing, China
  • "Skat Players", Vilma Gold, London
  • "New Acquisitions 2", The Rachovsky House, Dallas, Texas

2007

  • "Imagine Los Angeles", Galerie Spruth/Magers, Munich, Germany

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