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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

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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

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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

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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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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sterling Ruby Art

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Carvings 1-5 Chromogenic Print Set, Abstract Style, Framed, 2000-2009
Carvings 1-5 Chromogenic Print Set, Abstract Style, Framed, 2000-2009

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By Sterling Ruby

Located in New York, NY

Carvings 1-5 by Sterling Ruby is one work in five parts of images of tree carvings. Sold as a set of five only, each work is 36 x 36 inches framed size, framed by the artist in a deep mahogany finished wood. Paper size is 31.5 x 31.5 inches. Chromogenic print, Edition of 3 Exhibition: Cologne, Galerie Christian Nagel, Sterling Ruby: Supermax 2006, March 4-April 2 Provenance: Artist Hauser...

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Deep Orange

Deep Orange

By Sterling Ruby

Located in London, GB

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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Paper, Varnish, Giclée, Screen

EXHM (3839)

EXHM (3839)

By Sterling Ruby

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Collage and urethane on cardboard

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Paper, Cardboard

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Find a wide variety of authentic Sterling Ruby art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sterling Ruby in board, cardboard, digital pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Sterling Ruby art, so small editions measuring 22 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Joanie Lemercier, Michael Hurson, and Mickalene Thomas. Sterling Ruby art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,500 and tops out at $28,000, while the average work can sell for $15,250.