Sterling Ruby - Urethane Works - The Artist's Studio - MOCAtv

Los Angeles artist Sterling Ruby first exhibited his monumental urethane sculptures as part of MOCA Focus: Sterling Ruby, SUPERMAX 2008, an energetic show of painting, collage and sculpture. MOCA visits the artist in his studio for an exclusive look into his process.
Born in 1972, on Bitburg Air Base, Germany, and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Sterling Ruby moved to Los Angeles to attend Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. The highly prolific artist has maintained studios in the industrial outskirts of Los Angeles since 2003. Plunging into the damp basements and tagged streets of contemporary America, Ruby transforms iconographies of industriousness and virtuous craft into masochistic lamentations. Ruby vilifies the artistic gesture as a conditioned response, bound to a history that is, to him, at its best a crutch and at its worst a stifling prison.
For the first time, film crews visit Ruby in his Vernon, California studio complex as he works with a team of assistants to create his famed urethane works. Ruby brings the camera inside the process, offering intimate views of the mixture of chemicals, application of urethane, and the heavy machinery used to invert and transport his works. Where once was the ecstatic solo dance of Jackson Pollock is now the clandestine construction in the studio with Sterling Ruby as its fastidious foreman. The comparison to a laboratory-be it scientific or street drug-is altogether welcome.
Directed by Bryan Olinger.
Executive Producer: Emma Reeves.
Steadicam: Jess Haas.
Additional Photogrpahy: Andy Featherston
Featuring music by Ernest Gibson: "When You Get There."
Sterling Ruby Studio Team:
Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
Tyler Britt
Sarah Conaway
Ashley Fondrevay
Trevor Gainer
Natasha Garcia-Lomas
Shu-Wen Lin
Emily Marchand
Augustus Thompson
Reid Ulrich
Celeste Voce
David Watts
Lucas Wrench
Filmed on location in Los Angeles, summer 2013.

[@booradley3400]

I remember making these. It was a wild ride

[@booradley3400]

@Cody Lababit I hate you fucking bots

[@Kapojos]

So how are those red drips made..?

[@booradley3400]

@@Kapojos urethane with red dye

[@23BET23]

I love this video... so cool to see inside the old studio.

[@MissFoible]

This is what art is meant to be. I see our culture, our world, everything now-- in Ruby's sculptures.

[@PeterDad60]

MissF you are as demented as he is.

[@dalton-at-work]

its poured out plastic dude....seek help

[@thestugats]

The music is sick

[@tubedLeVeNdiS]

"I do not claim to know much more about novels than the writing of them, but I cannot imagine one set in the breathing world which lacks any moral valence" ~ Robert Stone

[@oliviagiles]

that music is amaze-balls

[@booradley3400]

Oh you like that baby?

[@romemiller1504]

Fresh !!!

[@peter323]

amazing!

[@Valkiraun]

I'm not a big art fan but this is pretty cool.

[@hippywolf]

Oops-now you are an art fan

[@zebredpooding]

Visceral. Makes me uneasy.

[@PedroRamirezArt]

good stuff

[@jontymellmann9233]

wow

[@cartagenafaytong]

Name of the track?

[@ThisisRubbishlo]

i fell a sleep.

[@ivanjavis]

overrated

[@rexgoliath4032]

Not only is this art nonsense, the artists rambles on and really says nothing at all. His art says nothing at all.

[@alfiewhitson7726]

As do you

[@MrWatchowtnow]

Gesteral= cant paint sculpt or draw

[@zebredpooding]

Gestural

[@nancyprawdzik8348]

Barf.

[@RichardKing4U]

I've been speaking English now for about 70 years. I'm an artist from the UK. I live here in Thailand on the beach, 100 miles south of Bangkok. I've learnt to speak Thai, I've also learnt a bit of German, some Spanish but I can't for the life of me understand what the hell you're gabbing about. You've been educated beyond my intelligence, AND I suspect you've been educated beyond your intelligence as well. Do you find when you go down the pub for a beer at night and you start talking like that, that people want to fight with you ? Do they look for an excuse to smack you right in the kisser. I wouldn't be surprised if they did. Have a look at Frank Stella's work. Now he's an artist. By the way how much do you charge for these masterpieces ?

[@asolh1184]

Y'all bluh bluh bluh, he's a genius

[@PeterDad60]

Looks like something out of the movie "Hive". I hate it, he's a fruitcake.

[@helenfreud2088]

this is beaty , for all.

[@RichardCorral]

overrated

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

RichardCorral: ...and saying that elevates your importance somehow?