Purple Magazine
— F/W 2012 issue 18
Ruby Sky Stiler
Ruby Sky Stiler
No Title, 2010, woven text book pages, spray paint, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
Nude from Parts, figures 5 & 6, installation view, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
artist
interview by JULIANA BALESTIN
portrait by ALEXIS DAHAN
Ruby Sky Stiler was born in Maine in 1979. She spent her childhood in New Mexico and attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. She puts together sculptures, vases, and paintings in a way that makes one think of both classical marble figures and modern painting and collage, while not exactly being either one. There is the implied monumentality of the remote past in her use of figures and a modern elegance in their surface articulation, both of which should actually be betrayed by the fact that she uses foam board for a material. Her recent exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene in New York and at SAKS Gallery in Geneva, weave together progressive art history and a flirtation with kitsch. The seemingly disjointed but very compelling result is a lesson in contradiction.
