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Gagosian Gallery is pleased announce the exhibition of a new sculpture by Nancy Rubins, entitled Chas’ Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson’s Airplane Parts, About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire, and Gagosian’s Beverly Hills Space. The piece brings together all these disparate elements to create a sprawling, monumental work that fills the volume of the entire gallery space.
Like an ancient massive tree, the sculpture is rooted to the gallery floor and grows organically from a single trunk. The sculpture rises to spread and cantilever out in multiple and unpredictable directions. The viewer, upon entering the gallery space, becomes engulfed by this huge, improbable structure and cannot obtain a clear sense of its boundaries.
The sculpture, made from used airplane parts, will reach 25 feet at its highest point and extend almost 65 feet diagonally. With this work, Rubins continues to investigate the energy of mass and how obdurate materials can be manipulated into buoyant and a seemingly precarious state.
For over 25 years, Rubins, who lives and works in Los Angeles, has exhibited extensively around the world, including: the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1992; the Venice Biennale, 1993; the Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1995; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1995; ARTPACE, San Antonio, TX, 1997; The Louisana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, 1997; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsberg, Germany, 1998; and The Miami Art Museum, 1999.
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In Conversation
Nancy Rubins and Eric Shiner
The pair discuss Nancy Rubins’s unique approach to sculpture, in which industrial and found objects—such as television sets, airplane parts, and carousel animals—are transformed into engineered abstractions that are at once otherworldly and familiar.
Conclusions Never Reached: Nancy Rubins in Fluid Space
Sara Softness reflects on a new series of sculptures by Nancy Rubins, Fluid Space (2019–21), “visual poems” that hint at the invisible and the unknown.
Nancy Rubins: Exploring Form
Join Nancy Rubins at her California studio as she speaks about her working process and the abiding interests in space, depth, and the residues of time that have informed her sculptures and drawings.
Behind the Art
Nancy Rubins: Drawing in Graphite
Filmed during the installation of Nancy Rubins’s latest exhibition, Diversifolia, this video provides a rare look at one of the artist’s large-scale, graphite drawings.
Work in Progress
Nancy Rubins
In the summer of 2017, Laura Fried took a trip to Nancy Rubins’s awe-inspiring studio in Topanga Canyon, CA. In this essay, she recounts her visit, detailing Rubins’s latest sculptures and the history of the studio.