Sterling Ruby Ceramics Book

Robert wedemeyer courtesy sterling ruby studio he first began incorporating rejects into his ceramics as an informative explosion of past things in the new.

Sterling ruby ceramics book.

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. 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. Ceramic 20 x 66 x 43 in. American artist sterling ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art.

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. Having grown up in a craft oriented amish region he realized early on that his visual vocabulary derived mostly from crafts. Sterling ruby s work engages with issues related to autobiography art history and the violence and pressures within society. Published with delmonico prestel the catalogue features essays that consider ruby s work amidst the contemporary art.

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. The los angeles based artist sterling ruby born 1972 works prolifically in a wide range of media from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures to large scale spraypainted canvases nail polish drawings collages and videos. Ceramics is the first museum exhibition to focus on the ceramic works of los angeles based artist sterling ruby. Sterling ruby is known for the multifaceted nature of his practice which encompasses painting ceramics collage video and photography textiles sculpture and installations.

The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies particularly schizophrenia and paranoia urban. 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. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources including marginalized societies maximum security prisons modernist architecture artefacts and antiquities graffiti waste and consumption and urban gangs.