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Nancy Rubins
Dense Bud and Agrifolia Majoris

Two sculptures by Nancy RubinsDense Bud (2016) and Agrifolia Majoris (2017)—are currently on public display in Chicago as part of a partnership program between the Chicago Park District and EXPO Chicago’s IN/SITU Outside program, which installs temporary public art installations along the lakefront and throughout Chicago neighborhoods.

Nancy Rubins, Dense Bud, 2016, installation view, Chicago © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Brian Guido

Nancy Rubins, Dense Bud, 2016, installation view, Chicago © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Brian Guido

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Nancy Rubins, Worlds Apart, 1982 © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Irv Tepper

In Conversation

Nancy Rubins, Eric Shiner, Phong Bui

Monday, October 30, 2023, 6–8pm
Powerhouse Arts, New York
www.powerhousearts.org

Join Powerhouse Arts for a conversation between Nancy Rubins; Eric Shiner, president of Powerhouse Arts; and Phong Bui, publisher and artist director of the Brooklyn Rail, to celebrate the release of Rubins’s new monograph Fluid Force, which includes contributions by Shiner and Bui. A survey of the artist’s work to date, the book collects five decades of her gravity-defying practice and invites the reader to linger on her investigations of materiality. The trio will discuss Rubins’s fascination with form and matter and her exploration of the notions of what sculpture and drawing could and can be.

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Nancy Rubins, Worlds Apart, 1982 © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Irv Tepper

Nancy Rubins, 5,000 lbs. of Sonny’s Airplane Parts, Linda’s Place, and 550 lbs. of Tire-Wire, 1997, Ruby City, San Antonio © Nancy Rubins. Photo: courtesy Ruby City, San Antonio

In Conversation

Nancy Rubins
Sara Softness

Thursday, March 16, 2023, 3pm CDT
www.rubycity.org

Join Ruby City for an online conversation between Nancy Rubins and interdisciplinary curator Sara Softness. They will discuss Rubins’s sculptures, touching on her use of salvaged airplane parts in works including the one permanently installed in the sculpture garden at Ruby City. This talk is presented as part of San Antonio’s Contemporary Art Month, an annual program of events at galleries, museums, and performing art spaces throughout the city.

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Nancy Rubins, 5,000 lbs. of Sonny’s Airplane Parts, Linda’s Place, and 550 lbs. of Tire-Wire, 1997, Ruby City, San Antonio © Nancy Rubins. Photo: courtesy Ruby City, San Antonio

Installation view, Nancy Rubins: Our Friend Fluid Metal, Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 2021–September 26, 2022. Artwork © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Brian Guido

In Conversation

Nancy Rubins
Ann Goldstein

Thursday, September 1, 2022, 2–3pm
Art Institute of Chicago
www.artic.edu

Join Nancy Rubins and Ann Goldstein, deputy director and Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, for a conversation about the artist’s exhibition Our Friend Fluid MetalTwo works from this series are presented in Chicago for the first time in an installation composed by Rubins for the Art Institute’s Bluhm Family Terrace. In these works, Rubins transforms children’s equipment from playgrounds, amusement parks, and coin-operated rides into dynamic, colorful sculptures that uncannily cantilever and bloom out of the ground.

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Installation view, Nancy Rubins: Our Friend Fluid Metal, Art Institute of Chicago, September 30, 2021–September 26, 2022. Artwork © Nancy Rubins. Photo: Brian Guido

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