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Sterling Ruby Art

American, b. 1972
Sterling Ruby’s work engages with issues related to autobiography, art history, and the violence and pressures within society. 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. Born on Bitburg Air Base, Germany, to an American father and a Dutch mother, Ruby moved at a young age to the United States, where he grew up on a farm in southeastern Pennsylvania. There he encountered Amish quilt-making and Pennsylvania redware pottery, both of which directly inspired his initial forays into garment-making, soft sculpture, and ceramics. Ruby graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, in 1996. He received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2002, followed by an MFA from the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California, in 2005. Living and working in Los Angeles, Ruby draws endless inspiration from the city’s physical and conceptual landscape. A subseries of the SP paintings (2007–14), the VIVIDS (2014), are electric color fields inspired by the shifting, multihued skies that he encounters on his way to the studio, while the SUBMARINE (2015) and TABLES (2015 –19) series were created from hulking industrial parts sourced nearby. Ruby’s work often deals with the ways in which acts of defacement, like urban demarcation and graffiti, can produce a painterly sublime. Both in his YARD paintings (2015–16) and in his WIDW paintings (2016–), he taps into the speed and motion of collage, incorporating bleached fabric and cardboard scraps and combining abstract color fields with fragments of studio refuse. Continually pushing the boundaries between artistic mediums, Ruby launched a ready-to-wear clothing line in 2019.
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Artist: Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby American Flag Denim Chianti Flag Tapestry Wall Hanging Pop Art
Sterling Ruby American Flag Denim Chianti Flag Tapestry Wall Hanging Pop Art

Sterling Ruby American Flag Denim Chianti Flag Tapestry Wall Hanging Pop Art

By Sterling Ruby

Located in Surfside, FL

Sterling Ruby (American, b. 1972) 2015 CHINATI FLAG (DNM) Tag printed with SR STUDIO LA CA printed with handwritten edition number Ed # 88/100 Hand signed "Sterling Ruby" in black pe...

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The Martyr

The Martyr

By Sterling Ruby

Located in London, GB

Sterling Ruby The Martyr, 2006 Urethane, foam, paint and t-shirt, in 2 parts 26.7 x 199.4 x 114.3 cm 10 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 45 inches Embracing an omnivorous approach to material, Sterli...

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Sterling Ruby, Sunrise, Contemporary Art, 21st Century
Sterling Ruby, Sunrise, Contemporary Art, 21st Century

Sterling Ruby, Sunrise, Contemporary Art, 21st Century

By Sterling Ruby

Located in Hamburg, DE

Sterling Ruby (American, b. 1972) Sunrise, 2019 Medium: Digital Print Dimensions: 11 × 12 in (27.9 × 30.5 cm) Edition of 100: Hand signed and numbered Condition: Mint

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Deep Orange

Deep Orange

By Sterling Ruby

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Sterling Ruby Deep Orange, 2016 Signed and dated in pencil on the reverse, with edition by SRS in pencil on the reverse, Screenprint and Gicleé with spot varnish in colours on wove p...

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EXHM (3839)

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By Sterling Ruby

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Collage and urethane on cardboard

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