Sterling Ruby / Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans, Jessica Morgan.

By:

Ruby, Sterling, 1972- [artist.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Contemporary artistsPublisher: London : Phaidon Press Ltd., 2016Copyright date: 2016Description: 158 pages : colour illustrations ; 30 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780714870434
0714870439

Uniform titles:

Works. Selections

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

DDC classification:

709.2 RUB 23

Contents:

Interview / Kate Fowle in conversation with Sterling Ruby -- Survey : Encounters with Sterling Ruby / Franklin Sirmans -- Focus : Stoves / Jessica Morgan -- Studio visit -- Artist's writings : Apologetics, 2015 / [Sterling Ruby].

Summary: A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. 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. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.2 RUB (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100638114

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion

American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. 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. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.

Includes bibliographical references (page 157).

A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time, who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media, including sculpture, ceramics, painting, and video art. 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. Through these, he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Kate Fowle is chief curator for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and director-at-large at Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York.

Franklin Sirmans is director of the Pérez Art Museum in Miami.

Jessica Morgan is director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York.

Sterling Ruby is based in Los Angeles and is represented by SpruthMagers (London, Berlin, Los Angeles), Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), and Gagosian (worldwide).