Sterling Ruby: TURBINES | Gagosian Quarterly

Join Sterling Ruby in his Los Angeles studio as he works on new abstract paintings ahead of his exhibition "TURBINES" at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, in 2022.
To learn more about Ruby's work, head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to read an essay by Ester Coen. She meditates on the dynamism of the artist’s recent projects, tracing parallels between these works and the histories of Futurism, Constructivism, and the avant-garde: on.gagosian.co...
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Artwork © Sterling Ruby; video: Pushpin Films; camera: Romoff Media
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[@59jaguar]

Totally engrossing. Love this work

[@eenkjet]

These are much more mature than the early work. I'm glad to see he didn't peak too early.

[@Chron_Dawg78]

Simple but undeniable, like all great art

[@culturefan]

Thanks really. One of my fave artist currently working.

[@Kontorgh_art]

Amazing work.

[@humbertokatoch]

obras intensas e fortes, gostei das faixas

[@jeannagai5290]

Who did the music for this? Really set the mood

[@ursulafrydrich5857]

Je verrückter, desto besser.

[@mgu1N1n1]

"These paintings reflect how the world is now" Yeah Sterling, you're full of cliche BS.

[@gregorylent]

us$100,000 minimum .. stress as art, big biz

[@Frühobst]

Really? Talking a lot of mumbo jumbo.

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

Hmmmn......isn't that all talk about art?......did you expect no talky talk?

[@BobPagani]

Has to be him. Can't possibly be you.

[@culturefan]

I understood what he was saying. I don't know why you didn't.

[@914nyhappyendings6]

try harder

[@eenkjet]

He did a good job. If talking about your work. Always ALWAYS discuss the greatest artists in history. And always ALWAYS make your art about 'today', 'what's going on in the world'. After that go paint and roll your eyes.

[@evelynj1430]

Where do those enormous plastic sheets end up? I hope not in the ocean. Artists need to take more accountability for their impacts on the environment. His work is striking, but i couldn’t enjoy it properly because of the vision of him using giant sheets of plastic and disposing each one.

[@fritz4345]

In a plastic trashbag. Actually I thought the same thing, when I saw this.

[@pinkyspiderr]

The entire art industry, every single painting, piece of paper, sculpture, is either wrapped in thick poly plastic on a shelf in a warehouse, or is wrapped in plastic on the way to the gallery or collector. Every, single, painting. This also negates silicone release paper, Dartek film, bubble wrap (very often used), Valora foam sheeting, tyvek, etc. depending on what a certain piece of art requires in order to be considered soft-packed or crated..AND for the most part all of these things are single use. Because if a painting costs $80,000 or $8 million or $800, they wrap it in BRAND NEW plastic along with other materials, and ship it. Reuse of materials could contaminate such an expensive item. All of the wrapping eventually gets thrown away. Wooden crates get specially hand crafted to fit on painting for one shipment, and then the gallery or museum or owner of said crate has it destroyed and disposed of because they’re too expensive to store and move. The whole world is polluting heavily in every industry, him using plastic tarps in his studio, even if used once and thrown out, is equating for less than .25% (a quarter of 1 percent) of pollution caused by corporate entities, militaries, and chemical companies. Assuming they end up in the ocean is probably incorrect and would seem to be really random. Cruise ships and fishing vessels pollute the shit out of the worlds oceans, these probably went to wherever downtown LA’s garbage went.