Sterling Ruby

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Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby (* 1972 in Bitburg ) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles . Ruby was born in Bitburg, Germany to a Dutch mother and an American father and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and near Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania.

Life

education

Sterling Ruby attended an agricultural school and worked in construction before studying art at the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in Lancaster , PA. In 2001 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago . In 2003 he moved to Los Angeles and enrolled in the MFA program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadensa .

job

Sterling Ruby is a multidisciplinary artist best known for ornate biomorphic ceramics, large-scale sprayed canvases, cast urethane sculptures, various forms of collage and video work. In a 2008 New York Times review, art critic Roberta Smith named Ruby one of the most interesting artists to excel in the century. And even if this had only been eight years so far, this claim could prove itself.

He draws the subjects of his work from many sources, including marginalized societies, maximum security prisons, modern architecture, artifacts and antiques, as well as graffiti, the mechanisms of warfare and urban gangs. His work has often been cited as invoking minimalism, with the aim of uncovering underlying social structures and social power structures.

Exhibitions

Publications

  • Sterling Ruby. Winter Palace, Belvedere, Vienna 2016.
  • Misericordia. Prism, Los Angeles CA 2010.
  • Permanent mimesis. An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism. GAM-Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo 2010.
  • Permanent Trouble - Art from the Kopp Munchen Collection. Snoeck, Cologne 2010, ISBN 3-940953-46-6
  • Psychedelic. Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s. Text by David S. Rubin. San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas 2010, ISBN 0-262-01404-1
  • Rive Droite - Rive Gauche. JRP / Ringier, Zurich / Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris 2010.
  • Sterling Ruby: Ashtrays. Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels Belg 2010.
  • Sterling Ruby: Ceramics 2007-2010. Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo Jap 2010.
  • Beg, Borrow, and Steal. Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2009.
  • New York minute. Kathy Grayson. OHWOW, Miami Fla 2009.
  • Bob Nickas: Painting Abstraction. New Elements in Abstract Painting. Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.
  • Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby: Sterling Ruby. JRP Ringier, 2009.
  • Sterling Ruby Robert Mappelthorpe. Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Belg 2009.
  • The Shape of Things to Come. New sculpture. Saatchi Gallery. Rizzoli International Publications, 2009.
  • Vitamin 3-D. New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. Phaidon Press Inc., 2009.
  • If You Destroy the Image, You'll Destroy the Thing in Itself. Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen 2008.
  • Stray Alchemists. Ullens Center for the Arts, Beijing Ch 2008.
  • Sterling Ruby Chron. The Drawing Center, New York 2008.
  • Sterling Ruby Supermax 2008. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2008.
  • Red Eye - LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Rubell Family Collection, Miami 2007.
  • 2006 California Biennial. Orange County Museum of Art. Michael Ned Holte, Orange County Cal 2006.
  • The Pantagruel Syndrome. T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, Turin 2005.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Yeoh: Artistic Transgressor . In: Glass Magazine . No. 4 , 2010, ISSN  2041-6318 , p. 179 ( theglassmagazine.com ).
  2. ^ Foxy Production, Artist Bio, Sterling Ruby
  3. ^ Roberta Smith: Art in Review, Sterling Ruby. In: New York Times. New York March 21, 2008, p. E29.
  4. ^ Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini, Sterling Ruby: Sterling Ruby. Gallery d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea of ​​Bergamo, Bergamo 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Ruby, Sterling
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Bitburg