Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong will present an exhibition of new spray paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. Rendered in a fluorescent pink palette, VIVIDS reflects Ruby’s ruminations on the ever-changing, multi-hued Los Angeles skies that he encounters en route to his studio. Hazy, abstract forms permeate the canvas, created by fixing sprays alla prima, without pausing for touch-ups or to catch drips.
Ruby works with a variety of media, notably glossy poured-polyurethane sculptures, drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, graffiti-inspired spray paintings, and video. Ruby has long been influenced by the impacts of urban demarcation, vandalism, and the power struggles of gang graffiti. From his diverse oeuvre, his paintings are among the most abstract, in which acts of defacement are transformed into a painterly sublime. This is Ruby’s first exhibition with Gagosian Gallery.
Sterling Ruby SP288 , 2014, Spray paint on synthetic canvas. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer
by Louise Lui
Image courtesy of Sterling Ruby Studio and Gagosian Gallery
VIVIDS will run from September 13 until October 25, 2014
Gagosian Gallery, 7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong