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Sterling Ruby “Vert”
Taka Ishii Gallery
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Sterling Ruby
The Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby presents a selection of new oil paintings featuring evocative and jarring color palettes of red, orange and yellow, cerulean blues, greens and browns, set against frosty whites and charred blacks. Fingerprints and brushstrokes are visible, obsessive gestures and the thick application of oil paint veer into the obsessive, the unbalanced, set against collaged cardboard and fabric bands that are layered onto the works.
The stark yet poetic titles include abbreviations: CRSS for Cross, WIDW. for Window, VERT. for Vertical. These titles address the graphic collage elements that bisect the paintings creating sections or quadrants. They allude at recurrent themes in the artist’s work: horizons, grids, flags, prison bars, and in this series especially, windows. They suggest the panes of a window where the vantage point is unclear. Are we looking out or looking in? The title CRSS. UMBRA VITAE makes reference to the apocalyptic poem of celestial visions and dark musings written by George Heym describing the world of 1912 on the brink of a precipice. WIDW. MAZATEC. depicts a sky ablaze, while VERT.BOW. includes the rainbow that follows the storm. Presenting foreboding visions of an uncertain future, these psychological landscapes, bifurcated between interior and exterior, ultimately seek oneness, wholeness, reintegration.
The stark yet poetic titles include abbreviations: CRSS for Cross, WIDW. for Window, VERT. for Vertical. These titles address the graphic collage elements that bisect the paintings creating sections or quadrants. They allude at recurrent themes in the artist’s work: horizons, grids, flags, prison bars, and in this series especially, windows. They suggest the panes of a window where the vantage point is unclear. Are we looking out or looking in? The title CRSS. UMBRA VITAE makes reference to the apocalyptic poem of celestial visions and dark musings written by George Heym describing the world of 1912 on the brink of a precipice. WIDW. MAZATEC. depicts a sky ablaze, while VERT.BOW. includes the rainbow that follows the storm. Presenting foreboding visions of an uncertain future, these psychological landscapes, bifurcated between interior and exterior, ultimately seek oneness, wholeness, reintegration.
Schedule | Mar 23 (Fri) 2018-Apr 21 (Sat) 2018 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Mar 23 (Fri) 2018 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/23140/ | ||||
| Venue | Taka Ishii Gallery http://www.takaishiigallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | 3F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6434-7010 | ||||
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