Nancy Rubins

Nancy Rubins was born 1952 BirthNaples, Texas, USA.

Lives and works in HomeTopanga Canyon, California, USA.

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Nancy Rubins
Rubins is best known for her monumental, incredibly well-engineered outdoor installations, like the sculpture outside of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, entitled “Chas’ Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson’s Airplane Parts, About 1000 Pounds of Stainless Steel Wire, and Gagosian’s Beverly Hills Space.” The work that Rubins created for Frostig is her first bronze ever and, while the largest piece so far in The Frostig Collection, is her smallest sculpture…

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Nancy Rubins
In her attention-grabbing sculptures, Nancy Rubins achieves an unexpected monumentality with such gnarly mediums as wrecked airplane parts, derelict mobile homes, discarded appliances and trussed mattresses stuffed with gooey, rotting cakes. Beyond the poetic associations of their odd materials, critics have seen the sculptures as social commentary on topics ranging from environmental pollution to sexual abuse and eating disorders…

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A R T B O O K S

Paint made Flesh. In Paint Made Flesh, expressive figuration is considered as a reflection of artists' responses to such topics as identity, sexuality, and mortality

Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty. No artist's studio rivals Francis Bacon's in terms of sheer iconic pungency...

Gerhard Richter: A LIFE IN PAINTING. This biography of painter Gerhard Richter presents a portrait of an artist who has famously resisted associations between his personal life and his five-decades-long artistic oeuvre.

Lucian Freud. "I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture.

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