August 9, 2021

In Conversation

nancy rubins and eric Shiner

The pair discuss Nancy Rubins’s unique approach to sculpture, in which industrial and found objects—such as television sets, airplane parts, and carousel animals—are transformed into engineered abstractions that are at once otherworldly and familiar.

Nancy Rubins: Fluid SpaceGagosian, Beverly HillsJune 24–August 6, 2021

Video: Romoff Media

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Conclusions Never Reached: Nancy Rubins in Fluid Space

Conclusions Never Reached: Nancy Rubins in Fluid Space

Sara Softness reflects on a new series of sculptures by Nancy Rubins, Fluid Space (2019–21), “visual poems” that hint at the invisible and the unknown.

Nancy Rubins: Exploring Form

Nancy Rubins: Exploring Form

Join Nancy Rubins at her California studio as she speaks about her working process and the abiding interests in space, depth, and the residues of time that have informed her sculptures and drawings.

Nancy Rubins: Drawing in Graphite

Behind the Art
Nancy Rubins: Drawing in Graphite

Filmed during the installation of Nancy Rubins’s latest exhibition, Diversifolia, this video provides a rare look at one of the artist’s large-scale, graphite drawings.

Nancy Rubins

Work in Progress
Nancy Rubins

In the summer of 2017, Laura Fried took a trip to Nancy Rubins’s awe-inspiring studio in Topanga Canyon, CA. In this essay, she recounts her visit, detailing Rubins’s latest sculptures and the history of the studio.

Mary Weatherford and Mark Lee: Persephone

In Conversation
Mary Weatherford and Mark Lee: Persephone

Ahead of Persephone, an exhibition of new paintings by Mary Weatherford inside Hong Kong’s historic Pedder Building, the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier met with Weatherford and the architect Mark Lee to talk about their collaboration. Here, they discuss how custom architectural interventions—from mirrored columns to strategic light play—transform the gallery, evoking Persephone’s mythic journey through the underworld and back into the light of spring.

Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

In Conversation
Jenny Saville and Douglas Stuart

Ahead of her exhibition over the summer at the National Portrait Gallery, London, Jenny Saville met with the novelist Douglas Stuart to discuss Glasgow, the beauty and blemishes of bodies, and their respective creative processes.

Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun

In Conversation
Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Derrick Adams and Ekow Eshun, author, curator, and chair of the commissioning group for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. The pair discuss Adams’s latest paintings depicting visions of Black Americana—featured in the exhibition Situation Comedy at Gagosian, Davies Street, London—within the context of British contemporary culture.

Setsuko and Peter Marino

In Conversation
Setsuko and Peter Marino

To coincide with her exhibition SetsukoKingdom of Cats, at Gagosian, New York, the artist speaks with architect Peter Marino about her recent sculptures, paintings, and works on paper.

Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist

In Conversation
Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist

In conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami at Gagosian, London, Takashi Murakami and Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator and artistic director of Serpentine, London, sit down to discuss the artist’s exploration and contemporizing of ancient Japanese artworks and movements. The two delve into Murakami’s investigation of Iwasa Matabei’s seventeenth-century masterwork Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu (Scenes in and around Kyoto) and the Kyoto-based style of Rinpa painting, among other examples.

Julian Rose and Nicholas Serota

In Conversation
Julian Rose and Nicholas Serota

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Julian Rose, historian and critic of art and architecture, and Nicholas Serota, chair of Arts Council England and senior independent director on the BBC board, to celebrate the publication of Building Culture (2024), Rose’s new book about museum architecture. Rose and Serota discuss the ways in which museums are shaping the future of art, architecture, and public space.

Urs Fischer and Róisín Tapponi

In Conversation
Urs Fischer and Róisín Tapponi

Gagosian and Sadie Coles HQ hosted a conversation between Urs Fischer and film curator and writer Róisín Tapponi about fearless creativity and the artist’s most recent monograph, Urs Fischer: Monumental Sculpture.

Robert Stilin & Fernando Garcia

In Conversation
Robert Stilin & Fernando Garcia

The celebrated interior designer Robert Stilin invited Fernando Garcia, the co-creative director of Oscar de la Renta and MONSE, to his home in New York to discuss their approaches to design, art, and their clientele.