CRY. 2005
Lambda print. 160 x 119.21 cm

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Six things you need to know about STERLING RUBY:

1. RUBY was born in Germany
2. but grew up on the East Coast and attended college in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles for graduate school
3. He’s known for producing visceral works which tackle issues like individual impulses and mechanisms of social control,  Minimalism and Art Brut, graffiti art, desire, and pleasure
4. and this, through a diverse practice that includes richly glazed amorphous ceramics, large-scale spray painted canvases, hypnotic videos, poured urethane sculptures, inscribed Formica monoliths, nail polish drawings, and collages
5. Since 2010 STERLING RUBY is lecturing as a professor of art at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland
6. And good news: you have until the 28th May (tomorrow) to view his last exhibition “I AM NOT FREE BECAUSE I CAN BE EXPLODED ANYTIME” at Sprüth Magers in Berlin