The celebrated multidisciplinary artist Sterling Ruby has long been concerned with freedom. With its degradation, its expression and its preservation – as well as its literal and conceptual importance in the identity of his home and homeland, America. Having grown up in Baltimore and rural Pennsylvania, and then studied in both Chicago and LA, Ruby has drawn from the contours of these variegated US landscapes, compiling a body of work that is equally aesthetically and texturally diverse. What all these environments have in common, though, is an epic scale – rural, urban, industrial – an element that has governed his practice since the start.
February 18, 2019
Sterling Ruby’s Aerial Portrait of California’s Endless Prison System
The artist’s new show DAMNATION is a powerful exposure of America’s system of incarceration. Here, he speaks on the project with architecture critic and curator Mimi Zeiger
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