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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTION Sterling Ruby SP40 2008 spray paint on canvas 96 x 82 in. (243.8 x 208.3 cm) Signed, titled and dated “‘SP40’ SR.08” on the reverse.
Provenance Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles Catalogue Essay Among the luminaries of a new generation of contemporary artists, Sterling Ruby has established his unique artistic and innovative signature in relatively short time. Ruby’s versatile and impressive practice ranges from sculpture to ceramic, to video art, to large-scale graffitied canvases. Connecting his fascination with art historical movements to contemporary social structures, Ruby creates anachronistic artwork with pounding immediacy. Having received widespread critical acclaim, Ruby has been named “one of the most interesting artists to emerge in this century.” (R. Smith “Art in Review: Sterling Ruby ” New York Times, March 21, 2008). The present lot, SP40, 2008 illustrates how well deserved these accolades are and demonstrates the artist’s fascination with revealing the grittiness belying our everyday superficial experience. Part of the larger Spectrum Ripper series, which marked his first UK solo exhibition in 2008., SP40, 2008, focuses on deconstructing Minimalist form, in particular the grid as an ideal of geometry. Utilizing a Day-glo pink and orange palette on a dark canvas, Ruby finds a way of uncovering what maybe the psychic underpinnings of a sanitized aesthetics. With SP40, 2008, Ruby rebels against a visual hegemony of minimalist art and its politics through raw scratching and visibly manmade textural qualities, posing a uniquely raw and visceral vision. Read More