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СТЕРЛИНГА РУБИ

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source: hauserwirth
Sterling Ruby lives and works in Los Angeles. He has recently held major solo exhibitions at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium (2013); Fondazione Memmo, Rome, Italy (2013); and the exhibition ‘Soft Work’, which commenced at the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (2013) and travelled to Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2013), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, Frances (2012), Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (2012). Major solo exhibitions also include ‘Supermax 2008’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA (2008) and ‘Chron’, The Drawing Center, New York NY (2008). Running concurrently with his show at Hauser & Wirth, Ruby’s work is also featured in a solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art and in the Whitney Biennial 2014. His work will be featured in the Gwangju Bienniale, the Taipei Biennial, and the exhibition ‘The Los Angeles Project’, at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.
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source: xavierhufkens
Sterling Ruby’s studio-based practice is multifaceted and he makes installations, works in ceramic, poured urethane sculptures, spray-painted canvases and also collages, videos, and nail polish drawings. His works are the expressions of his interests in process, materials, psychology, urban culture, industry, American society and the 1980s punk movement, but also in geology and artefacts. Ruby’s interdisciplinary works act as formally charged markers and allegories for the burdens that plague contemporary existence. They channel the conflicts between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, American domination and decline, an engagement with irrationality and dysfunctional psychology, and its end result in upheaval. Ruby often exploits abject or marginalised subject matter to breach preformed dichotomies such as liberation and repression, conformity and marginality, passivity and aggression. Rather like Richard Hawkins and Mike Kelley, Ruby rejects the rigidity of Minimal Art and describes his art as the exploration of the “truncation of gesture, a kind of malleability that got frozen.” Sterling Ruby regularly collaborates with the designer Raf Simons.
Major solo exhibitions include Supermax, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Pacific Design Center, and Chron, The Drawing Center, New York, both in 2008. His first collaboration with Xavier Hufkens was a curatorial project entitled Sterling Ruby / Robert Mapplethorpe in 2009.
Sterling Ruby was born in Bitburg, Germany, in 1972. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
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source: egsedu
Sterling Ruby is an American multi-disciplinary artist. Sterling Ruby was born in 1972 in Bitburg, Germany. Sterling Ruby currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Sterling Ruby is well known for his layered ceramic work, large canvases, urethane sculptures, nail polish sketches, collage and films. Sterling Ruby’s work stands on its own as an intensive form of power that attacks the mediums he engages in and society at the same time. Through examining the world of those that exist at the outskirts, marginalized populations, graffiti, war, the occult and prison his works explodes into new frontiers.
Sterling Ruby’s mother was of Dutch origins and his father was an American. They had their child in Bitburg, Germany in 1972. Sterling Ruby grew up in both Baltimore, Maryland and Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania. Sterling Ruby first studied at an agriculture school and held a career in construction before he began his pursuit of the arts. Sterling Ruby went to the Pennsylvania School of Art and Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laud in 1996. He then went on to graduate in 2001 with his Bachelors in Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. After moving to LA in 2003, Sterling studied for his Masters in Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 2005 Sterling Ruby obtained his Master of Fine Arts at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles where he was also an Art Center Scholarship Recipient.
In 2003 Sterling Ruby showed Tamper Tantrum / Inanimate Death Magician at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 2003 he showed Free Association Always Ends Up with Pelvic Mirroring at the 1R Gallery in Chicago. 2003 also brought his work, The Hydroponic Connection to the Suitable Gallery in Chicago. 2005 would bring the works of Sterling Ruby to many shows including: This Range at Guild & Greyshkul in New York; Adjoining The Voids: Sterling Ruby & Kristen Stoltmann, at Sister in Los Angeles along with New Work shown at Foxy Production in New York. Sterling Ruby showed Interior Designer at the Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles in 2007. Later in the year he showed Recombines at the Galleria Emi Fontana in Milan. 2007 also had Sterling bring Supermax 2006 to the Galerie Christian Nagel located in Cologne, Germany. In 2007 Sterling showed Slasher Posters & Pillow Works at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery in Athens. That same year he showed Super Overpass at Foxy Production in New York. Sterling Ruby showed in New York twice in 2008: KILN Works at Metro Pictures and Chron at The Drawing Room.
In Sterling Ruby’s 2009 show put on by Foxy Production called The Masturbators, a multiple channel video installation challenges the boundaries of performance art. Porn stars are the performers and viewers are the voyeurs of his actors’ intimate sexual actions. The show challenges sexuality, artistic identity and gender identity. Male porn actors are asked to masturbate to climax, solo, in an empty room standing on color-coded towels. Instructions are given by the artist, a still photograph is taken, and then, as the action begins, the actors are left alone, never being sure if anyone is watching from the other side. Without their usual performance context, each pursues the given task with varying results.
In 2010 Sterling Ruby showed his solo exhibition entitled, Metal Works at Xavier Hufkens Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. The same year Sterling also showed Ashtrays at the Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud in Brussels, Belgium. The show featured a fresh set of sculptures made from welded and cut steel. The show is inspired by a month Sterling Ruby recently spent at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas. While there he found himself immersed in an odd suspension between the minimalist sculptures of Donald Judd, and the social and economic tensions of the Texas-Mexico border. The show looks into the soul of the decaying industrial American economy and the power the country still wields.
Ruby Sterling is well published and his works include the following: Misericordia. (Prism, Los Angeles, CA, 2010), Permanent Mimesis: An Exhibition about Simulation and Realism. (GAM-Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy. 2010), Permanent Trouble: Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp Munchen. (Germany: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft, 2010), Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s (San Antonio Museum of Art, 2010), Rive Droite/ Rive Gauche (Zurich:JRP/Ringier, Paris: Marc Jancou Contemporary, 2010), Sterling Ruby: Ashtrays. (Galerie Pierre Marie Giraud, Brussels, Belgium, 2010), Sterling Ruby: Ceramics 2007-2010. (Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2010), Beg,Borrow,and Steal. (Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2009), New York Minute. (Kathy Grayson. Published by O.H.W.O.W, 2009), Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting. (Bob Nickas, Phaidon Press Inc., 2009), Sterling Ruby. (Robert Hobbs, Jorg Heiser, Alessandro Rabottini and Sterling Ruby, JRP Ringier, 2009), Sterling Ruby Robert Mappelthorpe. (Brussels, Belgium: Xavier Hufkens, 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: Norway: Bergen Kunsthall, 2008), Stray Alchemists. (Beijing, China: Ullens Center for the Arts, 2008), Sterling Ruby Chron. (New York:The Drawing Center, 2008), Sterling Ruby Supermax 2008. (Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008), Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. (Miami: Rubell Family Collection, 2007), 2006 California Biennial: Orange County Museum of Art. (Michael Ned Holte, Orange County, California, 2006), and The Pantagruel Syndrome. (Torino, Italy: T1 Torino Triennale Tremusei, 2005).