STERLING RUBY

Winterpalais, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, 2016

The Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby (born on an American Air Force 1972 in Bitburg, Germany) is undoubtedly one of the most influential and innovative artists of the generation born in the 1970s and is still one of the most enigmatic, controversial and unfailingly unpredictable figures in the art world.


FROM THE VAPORS OF GASOLINE

Curated by Mathieu Paris and James Lindon, White Cube Mason's Yard, 2017

In the years after the Second World War, a golden age of economic growth seemed set to fulfil the historian James Truslow Adams’ celebrated description of the American Dream ‘of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability’.