Public Installation
Sculpture in the City 2019
Nancy Rubins
June 2019–April 2020
Various locations in London
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk
Nancy Rubins’s Crocodylius Philodendrus (2016–17) has remained on view in London’s Square Mile to be featured again in Sculpture in the City, an annual urban sculpture park. Clusters of animal forms are arranged in balanced compression and secured with tensile cables. “Tensegrity,” the term for the structural property that Rubins employs, galvanizes the aluminum, brass, bronze, and cast iron animals into purely formal, abstract components that propel into space due to their aggregate momentum. The work is from her series Diversifolia, which was first exhibited last year at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London.
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Nancy Rubins, Crocodylius Philodendrus, 2016–17 © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
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Powerhouse Arts, New York
www.powerhousearts.org
Join Powerhouse Arts for a conversation between Nancy Rubins; Eric Shiner, president of Powerhouse Arts; and Phong Bui, publisher and artist director of the Brooklyn Rail, to celebrate the release of Rubins’s new monograph Fluid Force, which includes contributions by Shiner and Bui. A survey of the artist’s work to date, the book collects five decades of her gravity-defying practice and invites the reader to linger on her investigations of materiality. The trio will discuss Rubins’s fascination with form and matter and her exploration of the notions of what sculpture and drawing could and can be.
Nancy Rubins, Worlds Apart, 1982 © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Irv Tepper
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www.rubycity.org
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Nancy Rubins, 5,000 lbs. of Sonny’s Airplane Parts, Linda’s Place, and 550 lbs. of Tire-Wire, 1997, Ruby City, San Antonio © Nancy Rubins. Photo: courtesy Ruby City, San Antonio
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Nancy Rubins, Dense Bud, 2016, installation view, Chicago © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Brian Guido
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