STERLING RUBY – WORK WEAR
2016-03-14WORK WEAR: Garment and Textile Archive 2008-2016 will present for the very first time an eight year survey of the clothing and textile production made by Sterling Ruby.
The garments in the exhibition – coats, ponchos, bags, shirts, and pants – replay, recycle, and echo the remnants of fabrics used to create the artist’s quilts, collages, textiles and sculptures. A sense of recycling and breaking down utilitarian versus aesthetic hierarchies has evolved in the artist’s studio. Collages become quilts, quilts become soft sculptures, and sculptures become clothes. The Bauhaus movement, with its challenge to the design versus high art dichotomy, is an ever present touchstone for the artist and his seemingly inexhaustible forays into craft and design.
Exhibition runs through till April 9th, 2016
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
