Xavier Hufkens, Brussels Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Brussels, Xavier Hufkens, Sterling Ruby/Robert Mapplethorpe, 10 December 2009 - 14 January 2010, pp. 20-21, 24 and 25 (illustrated, pp. 20-21, 24)
Literature
Kate Fowle, Franklin Sirmans and Jessica Morgan, Sterling Ruby, New York, 2016, p. 87 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
'Using clay became a way to just make something, it represented the gesture I was longing for. I started to see my ceramics as monuments to my desire to make a sincere gesture, and the shame that came with it....For me, as a material, clay has always been about malleability as opposed to vulnerability. That being said, I incorporate the failure and fragility of ceramics by using broken fragments from previous works in the creation of new pieces. I like the opportunity for chance, the reclamation and recycling through materials. It becomes an autobiographical excavation, my own archaeology.' Sterling Ruby