Sterling Ruby

by Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans (Contributor), Kate Fowle (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Art

160 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2016

About the author

Kate Fowle is the Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI) in New York. Prior to this she was the inaugural International Curator at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. From 2002-07 she was the Chair of the MA Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, which she co-founded with Ralph Rugoff. Before moving to the United States in 2001, Fowle was co-director of smith + fowle, a curatorial partnership based in London that developed exhibitions and commissions across the U.K. Between 1994-1996 Fowle was a curator at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne, East Sussex.