NYAB Event - Sterling Ruby “Sunrise Sunset”

Sterling Ruby “Sunrise Sunset”

Hauser & Wirth (511 W 18th St)

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Possessed of a profound material sensibility, Sterling Ruby’s art speaks in a language inspired by sub-cultural phenomena ranging from graffiti, urban gangs, and prison systems, to craft and the history of quilt-making. Ruby’s work, which encompasses nearly every medium, voraciously cycles through the autobiographical, the art historical, and the sociological, creating layers of reciprocal influence that radiate outward. Ruby exploits tensions within aesthetic and societal systems, recreating and drawing our attention to repressive and liberated states.

Beginning 9 May 2014, Hauser & Wirth New York is pleased to present Sterling Ruby “SUNRISE SUNSET”, an exhibition of new works by the Los Angeles based artist. Comprised of paintings, cardboard collages, fabric collages, tapestries, ceramics, a mobile, and sculptures in metal, urethane and fabric.

Sterling Ruby’s studio has been described as “an archive, a vessel” filled with a plethora of art objects and materials, including failures, successes, and pieces that offer the potential to be reclaimed and reanimated as new forms. The works on view in SUNRISE SUNSET represent the many modes of the artist’s production but play upon a central motif: the tension that arises between the horizon lines of Ruby’s monumental paintings, and the circular forms in primary colors that are found in his mobile, collages, and sculptures. These circles suggest celestial bodies - the rising sun, an orbiting moon. Ruby presents a personal cosmology; his work traces an existential timeline, the continual cycle of day into night, a day’s production or a lifetime’s, from birth to death. Here we find powerful forces in opposition, calibration, and suspension: literal and figurative, representational and abstract, East Coast and West Coast, the permanent and the fleeting, pathos and playfulness, glory and abjection.

Media

• Painting
• Other
• Sculpture
• Other

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