Sterling Ruby Photography

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.

Artist: Sterling Ruby

Sterling RubyCarvings 1-5 Chromogenic Print Set, Abstract Style, Framed, 2000-2009, 2006

$22,000

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

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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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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C Print

Andrew GeorgeBarnett, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Barnett

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/8 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeFamily, 2003

$2,200

H 24 in W 20 in

Family

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss, 2003. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/1 on verso. This is a unique print. Artist Andrew George is based in Los ...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeEllsworth, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Ellsworth

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 3/3 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeAcross 2, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Across 2

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeMoonrise (over Tivoli), 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Moonrise (over Tivoli)

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/3 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeNortheaster 2, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Northeaster 2

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgePiet 2, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Piet 2

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 1/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiered his latest series of photographic murals entitled Analogies & Metaphors in New York City. Andrew’s work has been in 20 international exhibitions, most recently in Japan and Korea (where accompanying books of his work were published) and Germany. Andrew’s internationally acclaimed photography and interview project, Right, before I die, traveled abroad 7 times and attracted more than half a million visitors at its various venues. Andrew has won numerous awards for his photography and has appeared in The Huffington Post, Vanity Fair, CBS News...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeNortheaster 1, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Northeaster 1

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiere...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeTurkish House, 2003

$750

H 11.5 in W 12 in

Turkish House

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Type-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Semimatte, 2003. Signed, dated, and numbered 1/2 on verso. In the series ‘Weights & Measures’ (2003) Andrew George turns his lens towards chance coll...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgePopsicle, 2012

$850

H 11 in W 17 in

Popsicle

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

From the Secondhand Nature series #22. Archival Pigment Print on Canson Baryta Photographique IISigned, dated, and numbered 2/2 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angel...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

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Photographic Film, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment

Andrew GeorgeNew Leaf, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

New Leaf

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Fujiflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed and numbered 1/4 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premiered his latest series of ...

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Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

Andrew GeorgeOkay, 2003

$850

H 14 in W 11 in

Okay

By Andrew George

Located in New York, NY

Lambda digital-c print on Ilford Ilfoflex Archival Super Gloss. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered 8/12 on verso. Artist Andrew George is based in Los Angeles. He recently premier...

Category

Early 2000s Abstract Sterling Ruby Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda

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