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Sterling Ruby

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Sterling Ruby

JRP|RINGIER
Edited with foreword by Alessandro Rabottini. Text by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Sterling Ruby, Catherine Taft.

Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 71 color / 4 bw. | 11/30/2014 | In stock
$55.00


Sterling Ruby: LA/BJ

UCCA/KOENIG BOOKS
Edited by Karen Marta, Brian Roettinger.

Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color / 20 bw. | 4/28/2015 | Out of stock
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Sterling Ruby: Softwork

KOENIG BOOKS
Text by Julian Myers-Szupinska.

Pbk, 11 x 15 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 10/31/2014 | Not available
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Sterling Ruby

JRP|RINGIER
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini. Text by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Catherine Taft.

Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 100 col. | 8/31/2009 | Not available
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Sterling RubySterling Ruby

Published by Verlag für moderne Kunst.
Preface by Agnes Husslein-Arco. Text by Mario Codognato.

The Los Angeles–based artist Sterling Ruby (born 1972) works prolifically in a wide range of media, from glazed biomorphic ceramics and poured urethane sculptures to large-scale spraypainted canvases, nail polish drawings, collages and videos. Ruby's exhibition in the richly decorated Baroque rooms of the former residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Winterpalais in Vienna, is particularly extraordinary in the contrast between the two aesthetics. This volume, and the exhibition it accompanies, offers a survey of the artist’s oeuvre, including his ceramics, bronze, steel and urethane sculptures, mobiles, soft works and tapestries.

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Verlag für moderne Kunst

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Hardcover, 12.75 x 8.75 in. / 112 pgs / 66 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2017 p. 108   

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Sterling Ruby: CHRONSterling Ruby: CHRON

Published by Karma, New York.

CHRON is an approximately 500-page publication that collects over 300 collages and works on paper from a decade of Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby's (born 1972) practice. Vivid backgrounds and a variety of media compose the intricate, geometric collages and reference the artist's painting and sculptural work. Ruby's DRFTRS and EXHM series are also collected here. The latter, massive pieces of cardboard originally used as a shell for the studio floor, are painted in deep hues of primary colors and exhibit the continued accrual of urethane and studio debris, a technique the artist continues to explore today. Proclaimed "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century" by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, Ruby--with his graffiti-based spray paint drawings, nail-polish abstractions and inscribed Formica sculptures--has perfected a sort of anti-minimalism, here compiled in this massive new volume.

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Karma, New York

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Hardcover, 7.25 x 9 in. / 496 pgs / 450 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 135   

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Sterling Ruby: LA/BJSterling Ruby: LA/BJ

Published by UCCA/Koenig Books.
Edited by Karen Marta, Brian Roettinger.

Struck by the eerie similarities between the giant megalopolises of Los Angeles and Beijing, Sterling Ruby (born 1972) takes the reader into his own journalistic vision-sourcing photographs of landscapes and interiors of the two cities, both shot and found by the artist-each page claustrophobically framed by collaged imagery of stalagmites and stalactites. The focal point where these two cities merge gives rise to a dystopic scene that feels like science fiction. Following in the great artist book tradition of John Baldessari and Edward Ruscha, the UCCA has called on Sterling Ruby along with LA artists Kathryn Andrews, Aaron Curry, Alex Israel, Matthew Monahan, Ryan Trecartin, and Kaari Upson to make individual artist books for The Los Angeles Project in Beijing.

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UCCA/Koenig Books

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Paperback, 6.75 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color / 20 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 141   

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Sterling Ruby: SoftworkSterling Ruby: Softwork

Published by Koenig Books.
Text by Julian Myers-Szupinska.

Conceived and designed by Sterling Ruby (born 1972) himself, Softwork is generously illustrated with dozens of full-page photographs of works from the artist's last four exhibitions, as well as many images from Ruby's studio that provide insight into the artist's working methods. Ruby makes urethane and bronze sculptures, hallucinatory color-field canvases and handmade ceramics, addressing the conflict between individual desire and social structure, and the influence of institutional architecture, both literal and figurative, on human behavior and psychology. "'Soft Work' is only a didactic term. It's not hard, it's not solid, it's malleable," Ruby told ArtInfo. "In America, there is a domesticity that is not associated with masculinity—or if it is, it's usually associated with a difference, a contradiction." Some of the works in Softwork also point to the influence of the late Mike Kelley, to whom Ruby was both studio assistant and close friend.

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Koenig Books

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Paperback, 11 x 15 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 143   

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Sterling RubySterling Ruby

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited with foreword by Alessandro Rabottini. Text by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Sterling Ruby, Catherine Taft.

The multitude of mediums and techniques used by Sterling Ruby (born 1972) in his work—ranging from sculpture to collage, installation to painting, ceramics to video and printing—reflects the issues he tackles: the conflict between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, the coercive function of architectonic space, art as the domain of irrationality, Minimalism and Art Brut, graffiti art, urban violence, desire and pleasure. His works combine memory of the past with attention to contemporary urban and popular phenomena. It is an art of expression and accumulation, of the overproduction of information and of the delirium of the senses, of neurosis and paranoia, and in which the gigantism of the shapes and their proliferation appear like a corrupt manifestation of desire, consumption, anxiety and the need for control that characterizes contemporary occidental culture. This is the second edition of JRP|Ringier's 2009 monograph on Ruby.

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 71 color / 4 bw.

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Sterling RubySterling Ruby

Published by JRP|Ringier.
Edited by Alessandro Rabottini. Text by Jörg Heiser, Robert Hobbs, Catherine Taft.

In a 2008 review, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith glowingly endorsed German-born, Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby, calling him "one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century. That's only eight years, of course," she added, "but the claim may stick." Ruby--who was born in 1972--uses whatever media suits his ideas; projects have included sculpture, collage, installation, painting, ceramics, video and printmaking. Fusing references to Minimalism, Art Brut and graffiti with a canny grasp of contemporary and pop culture, Ruby's accumulative approach addresses the overproduction of information, neurosis and paranoia, conflicts between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, urban violence, consumption, anxiety and the need for control that characterizes contemporary Western society. Part of JRP|Ringier's distinctive monograph series, this well-illustrated volume is the most comprehensive reference on this rapidly emerging artist's work to date. It contains newly commissioned essays by Frieze associate editor Jörg Heiser and art historian Robert Hobbs.

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JRP|Ringier

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Paperback, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 100 col.

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Catalog: FALL 2009 p. 89   

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