Sculpture Sterling Ruby Ceramics

Ceramics june 9 september 9 2018 i.

Sculpture sterling ruby ceramics. In addition to ceramics his practice incorporates fabric found metal sculpture. Sterling ruby born january 21 1972 is an american artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics painting drawing collage sculpture video and textiles. Sterling ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice which encompasses painting ceramics collage video and photography textiles sculpture and installations. 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.

The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban. 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 organized by the des moines art center and on view at the museum of arts and design through march 17 2019. 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.

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 s areas of interest are numerous and his artistic output is prodigious. Projects in fabric including clothing cast iron stoves savaged submarines prison buses cardboard collages and intimate drawings fill his studio. Sterling ruby s work engages with issues related to autobiography art history and the violence and pressures within society.

Organized by the nasher sculpture center sterling ruby. Sterling ruby s first museum survey in the u s. Often his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. 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.

Sculpture is the first museum survey of ruby s work in the medium featuring nearly thirty sculptures ranging from the intimate to the monumental.