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Present Tense
Selections from the Lenhardt Collection

September 8–December 30, 2018
Phoenix Art Museum
www.phxart.org

Present Tense includes more than twenty paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures all drawn from the private collection of Dawn and David Lenhardt. The show places recent contemporary acquisitions by the Lenhardts in conversation with works by modern artists. Work by Damien Hirst, Roy Lichtenstein, Sterling Ruby, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Sterling Ruby
Ceramics

June 9–September 9, 2018
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
www.desmoinesartcenter.org

Sterling Ruby’s areas of interest are numerous, but sculptures in clay have long played a fascinating and primary position in his broader studio work. Process and materiality are paramount for Ruby, and using these attributes has enabled him to create an extraordinary body of work that is engaging, intuitive, and subversive.

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Sterling Ruby in
Regarding George Ohr: Contemporary Ceramics in the Spirit of the Mad Potter

November 21, 2017–April 8, 2018
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
www.bocamuseum.org

This exhibition brings together twenty-four unique major works by George Ohr, many never before exhibited in public, along with objects by contemporary artists working in the same vein. Work by Sterling Ruby is included.

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Proof of Life

May 19, 2017–February 25, 2018
Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
www.weserburg.de

Proof of Life brings together one hundred paintings, sculptures, and photographic works that investigate existential questions in a manner both palpable and profound. Work by Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Anselm Kiefer, Sterling Ruby, and Richard Serra is included.

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Sterling Ruby in
Christian Dior, Couturier du rêve

July 5, 2017–January 7, 2018
Musée des arts Decoratifs, Paris
www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr

This exhibition marks seventy years since the creation of the brand Christian Dior. It explores the universe of the founder and the designers who have succeeded him, including Raf Simons, who, while working at Dior, collaborated with Sterling Ruby to create a collection of dresses based on Ruby’s Spray paintings.

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Sterling Ruby in
Inside Intensity: The Anniversary Show

May 20–September 17, 2017
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
www.museumkurhaus.de

This year Kurhaus Kleve will be celebrating its twentieth anniversary with two large-scale exhibition projects. The overarching goal of these elaborate projects is to open up insight into the practice of contemporary art and to develop a sense of the nature of the zeitgeist. Work by Sterling Ruby is included.

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Sterling Ruby in
Point Quartz: Flower of Kent

June 4–September 17, 2017
Villa Arson, Nice, France
www.villa-arson.org

This exhibition is an in situ installation, conceived as a garden with flower beds that have been transformed into a landscape, made up of various strata, with ceramics in all shapes and forms, from arable soil to terra-cotta. Work by Sterling Ruby is included.

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Unpacking
The Marciano Collection

May 25–September 16, 2017
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
marcianoartfoundation.org

Unpacking: The Marciano Collection is the debut presentation of the collection’s holdings organized by Philipp Kaiser. The title and theme of the show are derived from Walter Benjamin’s essay “Unpacking My Library,” in which he discusses the chaotic potentiality inherent in unpacking and recontextualizing one’s collection. Work by Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Sterling Ruby, Cindy Sherman, Franz West, Jonas Wood, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Oracle

April 29, 2018–September 3, 2017
The Broad, Los Angeles
www.thebroad.org

From everyday experiences to protest movements as monumental as the Arab Spring uprisings across the Middle East, to themes that probe systems of social control or examine global commerce, artworks in Oracle tackle the effects of organizational frameworks on global events and private individuals. Some works in the exhibition symbolize marketplace machinations, both official and unofficial, while others are meditations on games, surveillance, vast data sets, mathematical and biological patterns, and even the logic of art itself. Work by Andreas Gursky, Albert Oehlen, Sterling Ruby, and Jeff Wall is included.

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99 Cents or Less

May 19–August 6, 2017
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
mocadetroit.org

A major group exhibition of ninety-nine artists based in the United States addresses Detroit’s ongoing economic crisis and its 2013 bankruptcy. Four years after a federal judge approved Detroit’s bankruptcy-exit plan, the city’s financial present and future are still in flux. This exhibition is a reflection on the realities of a city that was once one of the country’s wealthiest and most diverse. Work by Piero Golia, Alex Israel, Adam McEwen, Josephine Meckseper, and Sterling Ruby is included.

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Selections from the Permanent Collection
Catherine Opie and Sterling Ruby

April 2–June 12, 2017
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
www.moca.org

Sterling Ruby’s SOFT WORK installation is being presented within the context of the Geffen Contemporary’s permanent collection. The work is paired with Catherine Opie’s Inauguration portfolio, another recent acquisition featuring thirty-three photographs documenting the Obama inauguration in 2008. The two works are both large-scale and dovetail around American political motifs.

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Pretty Raw
After and Around Helen Frankenthaler

February 11–June 7, 2015
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
www.brandeis.edu

Pretty Raw takes the artist Helen Frankenthaler as a lens through which to refocus our vision of modernist art over the past fifty years. In this version, decoration, humor, femininity and masculinity, the everyday, pleasure, and authorial control take center stage. The exhibition, curated by Katy Siegel, features works by artists from the 1950s through the present who have found personal, social, and political meaning in materiality. Work by Helen Frankenthaler, Mike Kelley, Sterling Ruby, Andy Warhol, Mary Weatherford, and Christopher Wool is included.