Deep Orange was created as a Fundraising Edition in support of the 2016 LA Art Book Fair. The large format giclée and silkscreen print, with spot varnish, depicts a vibrant, high-gloss color field enclosed by 4 inward facing images of stalactites which border the print. Produced in an edition of 20, each print has been signed by the artist. The stalactites, tapering structures, often found hanging in the roof of a cave from calcium salts deposited in dripping water, encroach on the brightly colored field of color in the center of the work.
Sterling Ruby was born in 1972 on Bitburg Air Base, Germany. He received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Art Center College of Design in California. Ruby’s work engages with the violence embedded in society, art history, and his own biography. He draws on a range of mediums including sculptures, drawings, collages, paintings and ceramics in order to build a body of work which is both fluid and contradictory. His work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Tate, London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Sterling Ruby lives and works in Los Angeles.
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