Ruby’s Physicalism/The Recombine 2 (2006) is from a six-part series of collages of photographs of posing bodybuilders juxtaposed with candles. Courtesy of Sterling Ruby Studio
Survey of California-based artist’s 20-year career includes work ranging from ‘radical ceramics’ and large-scale sculpture to drawing and photography
With more than 100 works spanning two decades, Sterling Ruby’s first solo museum show, at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Miami “is an opportunity to dive deeper into his work and its key themes,” says Alex Gartenfeld, the exhibition’s co-curator and the museum’s artistic director.
As an artist, Ruby is hard to pin down, but if he is known for one thing, it is his multifaceted approach to art. This year, the Los Angeles-based artist launched a clothing line, S.R. Studio LA CA, and presented a new series of dinosaur skull sculptures—a string of hyper-real skeletal monsters with exuberant yarn for hair—and last year, New York’s Museum of Arts and Design held a solo exhibition of his ceramics.