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#Brie Ruais
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“Gesturing for Her to Follow (130lbs times two)” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 112 x 101 x 3 inches. All photographs courtesy of the artist and albertz benda, New York|Los Angeles, shared with permission
Starting with 130 kilos of sentimental clay, Brie Ruais sculpts radial types that seize her physique’s motion and proportions. The quantity of fabric aligns with the artist’s weight, which she heaves from a central level to create the looks of bursting outward. Every textured wall work freezes an imprint of her physique, whereas glazes in deep charcoal, blue, beige, and rose conjure the weather of earth, water, air, and hearth.
Following a current transfer from New York to New Mexico, Ruais has skilled excessive frontal winds, which might attain as much as 50 miles per hour at their spring peaks. The artist credit these gusts with “pushing her forward” into a brand new sequence, which can go on view subsequent month at albertz benda.
“Petaling Inward, Slicing Outward, 130lbs” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 69 1/2 x 68 x 4 inches
Bone Cube takes its identify from “Early December in Croton-on-Hudson” by Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück. Describing a automobile breakdown on a chilly winter day, the poem speaks to human vulnerability within the face of nature’s energy but additionally likelihood and want.
Lengthy, sweeping gestures evocative of wind and waves characterize Ruais’s works, and up to date items like “Gesturing for Her to Follow (130lbs times two)” and “Holding the Space Between Two Waves, High Tide (130lbs Cut from Low Tide)” increase radial shapes with crescent-shaped curves. Glazed in shades from navy to a pastel, sky blue, these types echo each waxing and waning moon phases.
“Holding the Space Between Two Waves, High Tide (130lbs Cut from Low Tide)” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 77 1/2 x 71 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches
Ruais is worried with the connection between people and ecology and what embodiment can educate us about equality and justice. Her sculptures inherently fuse disparate components, connecting earthly, aquatic, and celestial our bodies and serving as tangible data of the methods every one informs the others.
Bone Cube runs from September 5 to October 12 in New York. Discover extra from Ruais on Instagram.
“Exposing from Center, 130lbs” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 84 x 80 1/2 x 5 inches
“Holding the Space Between Two Waves, Low Tide (130lbs Cut from High Tide)” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 96 x 90 x 2 inches
“Petaling Inward, Piercing Outward, 130lbs” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 66 x 66 x 4 inches
(2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 38 x 40 x 4 1/2 inches
“Holding the Space Between Two Waves, Low Tide (130lbs Cut from High Tide)” (2024), glazed stoneware and {hardware}, 96 x 90 x 2 inches
#Brie Ruais
#ceramics
#sculpture
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