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Sterling Ruby

Vivids

September 13–October 25, 2014
Hong Kong

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Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Installation view, photo by Calvin Sit

Works Exhibited

Sterling Ruby, SP288, 2014 Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP288, 2014

Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP302, 2014 Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP302, 2014

Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP295, 2014 Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP295, 2014

Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP301, 2014 Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP301, 2014

Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP299, 2014 Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

Sterling Ruby, SP299, 2014

Spray paint on synthetic canvas, 96 × 84 inches (243.8 × 213.4 cm)
Photo by Robert Wedemeyer

About

I live in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and my studio is in downtown Los Angeles. My daily routine of driving back and forth is always a contemplative time. On these drives I often witness extremely vivid and colorful sunrises and sunsets, yielding horizon lines that transform the urban sprawl into a meditative celestial plane.
—Sterling Ruby

Gagosian Hong Kong is pleased to present “VIVIDS,” an exhibition of new spray paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. This is Ruby’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Ruby engages a wide range of aesthetic strategies and mediums—glossy and color-saturated poured-polyurethane sculptures, drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, graffiti-inspired spray paintings, and video—maintaining a constant tension within a multitude of elements. His work engages with issues related to the violence and pressures within society, autobiography, and art history. 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.

VIVIDS is a new suite of spray paintings in a vibrant, fluorescent pink palette. The resulting electric color fields are Ruby's ruminations on the shifting, multi-hued Los Angeles skies that he encounters en route to his studio. He engages the horizon as his subject using an approximate and speedy medium befitting the gritty urban context, fixing sprays into multiple dimensions alla prima, without pausing for touch-ups or to catch drips. Undelineated forms merge with hazy backgrounds and atmospheric magenta layers, producing meditations of uncontained voltage on an ever-shifting horizon line, which asserts its radiant presence beyond the physical picture plane.

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香港高古軒畫廊欣然宣布舉行斯達林‧魯比(Sterling Ruby)作品展「VIVIDS」,展出這位洛杉磯藝術家最新噴繪畫作。是次展覽為魯比於高古軒畫廊舉行的首場個展。

「VIVIDS」展覽匯聚魯比多件絢麗奪目的螢光粉紅色噴畫新作,矚目的螢光色調乃源自魯比往返洛杉磯工作室途中所見變幻萬千的天空。他以地平線為題材,利用媒介來反映高速、粗礪的城市環境,直接噴繪成不同的大小,未曾停下修飾或抹去滴下的噴漆。模糊的形狀與迷濛的背景和層層品紅色結合,展示不斷變化的地平線上難以遏抑的澎湃力量,光芒甚至超越畫作的平面。

斯達林‧魯比1972年生於德國比特堡美國空軍基地,現於洛杉磯居住及從事藝術創作。他的作品被多間藝術館收藏,包括紐約所羅門‧R‧古根漢美術館、紐約惠特尼美國藝術博物館、芝加哥當代美術館、北邁阿密當代美術館、洛杉磯當代美術館、洛杉磯郡立美術館、紐約現代藝術博物館、三藩市現代美術館、蒙特利爾美術館、斯德哥爾摩當代美術館、巴黎龐畢度中心及倫敦泰特現代藝術館。他亦曾舉行多場個展,包括紐約繪畫中心「CHRON」展覽(2008年)、洛杉磯當代美術館「SUPERMAX 2008」展覽(2008年)、意大利貝加莫現代及當代藝術館「Grid Ripper」展覽(2009年)、日內瓦當代藝術中心「SOFT WORK」展覽(2012年,其後巡展至法國蘭斯香檳-艾登區當代藝術收藏(le FRAC Champagne-Ardenne)、斯德哥爾摩邦尼爾美術館及羅馬當代藝術博物館)、羅馬Fondazione MEMMO「CHRON II」展覽(2013年,其後巡展至德國美因茨藝術館)、比利時根特東特‧丹那博物館「Droppa Blocka」展覽(2013年),以及巴爾的摩藝術博物館「Sterling Ruby」(2014年),其作品亦於2014年惠特尼雙年展中展出。

魯比將會參與北京尤倫斯當代藝術中心大型群展「洛杉磯計劃」(2014年)、臺北市立美術館「2014臺北雙年展」(2014年),以及第十屆光州雙年展「Burning Down the House」(2014年)。