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Ruby Sky Stiler Reassesses Ladies’s Function in Artwork Historical past in Geometric Portraits

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Up shut, the irregularly gridded, geometric backgrounds of Ruby Sky Stiler’s work evoke patchwork or the patterns of agricultural landscapes seen aerially. Intricate patterns intersect in every rectangle, hinting at floral or ornamental motifs that, when considered from additional away, seem virtually topographical. Merging with this groundwork are boldly delineated ladies who usually immediately return the viewer’s gaze.

Reassessing the historical past of Western artwork, Stiler positions ladies in what she has beforehand described as “the empowered role as The Artist.” Fairly than muses or objectified topics, she imbues her figures with qualities of management, liberty, and leisure.

“Woman with Children in Blue” (2024), canvas, acrylic, pencil, and jade adhesive on panel, 44 x 50 inches

Lately on view at Frieze LA with Alexander Grey Associates, Stiler’s work proceed to reenvision Twentieth-century abstraction, particularly the predominantly male Cubist motion that burgeoned round 1907 and 1908. She turns the tables on the traditionally gendered dichotomy in wonderful artwork, transferring the position of ladies as topics of work to that of creator.

In works like “Women with Children in Blue,” Stiler portrays nude figures in repose or with youngsters, emphasizing one other potent definition of ladies as creators and caregivers. Via mosaic-like compositions, she challenges artwork historic tropes and reasserts extra inclusive, modern definitions of gender roles in artwork.

Stiler employs a meticulous graphite switch course of to use patterned outlines to her items, nodding to textile design—a craft custom additionally traditionally trivialized within the artwork world as “women’s work.” Pastel acrylic hues fill out our bodies and backgrounds, whereas daring outlines evocative of minimalist Bauhaus design make clear our bodies and objects.

Stiler is at present making ready a solo exhibition with Alexander Grey Associates scheduled for November. Discover extra on her web site and Instagram.

a painting of two seated and reclining women, composed of abstract, patterned, geometric shapes, rendered overall in a light orange
“Two Women in Sienna and Umber, with Red Outline” (2024), canvas, acrylic, pencil, and jade adhesive on panel, 44 x 50 inches
a painting of a woman's head with bold blue hair, composed of abstract, patterned, geometric shapes, rendered overall in a light blue hue
“Blue Woman” (2024), canvas, acrylic, pencil, and jade adhesive on wooden panel, 18 x 15 1/2 inches
a painting of a nude woman kneeling, composed of abstract, patterned, geometric shapes, rendered overall in a light blue
“Seated Blue Figure (with turquoise and red outline)” (2024), canvas, acrylic, graphite, and jade adhesive on panel, 44 x 34 inches
an artwork in progress in Ruby Sky Stiler's studio, showing a transfer stencil of a pattern onto canvas that she is slowly peeling back
The artist transfers graphite patterns onto canvas
a tabletop in artist Ruby Sky Stiler's studio with sketches for new paintings, shown as the artist picks them up and displays a couple
Stiler shows preparatory sketches in her studio
pieces of canvas and yellow tape pasted on a surface with notes about the placement on a painting, like "cheek" and "chin" marked in pencil
Swatches are labeled to be used in a portray

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