Sterling Ruby (Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series)

About this book

A comprehensive study of one of the most versatile artists and acute observers of our time who fuses art and fashion American artist Sterling Ruby works in a large variety of media including sculpture ceramics painting and video art. Ruby is influenced by a wide range of sources including marginalized societies maximum-security prisons modernist architecture artefacts and antiquities graffiti waste and consumption and urban gangs. Through these he examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint.