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Sterling Ruby

STERLING RUBY

TURBINES Gagosian 10 November–23 December 2022 West 21st Street, New York
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Sterling Ruby’s work engages with issues related to the violence and pressures within society, autobiography, and art history. Drawing on diverse aesthetic strategies and mediums—glossy and colour-saturated poured-polyurethane sculptures, drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, graffiti-inspired spray paintings, and video—he maintains a constant tension within a multitude of elements. Throughout, he vacillates between fluid and static, minimalist and expressionist, pristine and dirty. Of the diverse forms that constitute his oeuvre, the paintings are the most formally abstract. Ruby has long been influenced by the sociological implications of urban demarcation, vandalism, and the power struggles of gang graffiti. In his paintings, acts of defacement are transformed into a painterly sublime.

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STERLING RUBY TILL DEATH DO US PART Gagosian 12 June–3 October 2026 rue de Castiglione, Paris
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Gagosian is a global network of art galleries specialising in modern and contemporary art with eighteen exhibition spaces worldwide.
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522 West 21st Street
New York
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Gagosian contemporary art gallery in West 21st Street New York United States
Gagosian
522 West 21st Street, New York, United States
+1 212 741 1717
http://gagosian.com
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