Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Norton Museum of Art 2023 Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s
Ruby Neri
Spirit Fly Away
Lot Closed
February 6, 07:18 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Ruby Neri
b. 1970
Spirit Fly Away
Executed in 2022.
Dated 2022
Ceramic with glaze
28 x 28 x 12 in. (71.1 x 71.1 x 30.5 cm)
Base: 39 1/2 x 29 3/4 x 2 3/8 in. (100.3 x 75.6 x 6 cm)
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Courtesy of the Artist and David Kordansky Gallery
Ruby Neri (b. 1970, San Francisco) draws upon twentieth-century West Coast traditions as well as a global catalogue of art historical and anthropological modes. She depicts the human body as a porous instrument of pleasure, terror, and everything in between; this places her within a lineage of recent Los Angeles-based artists that includes Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy, while her penchant for hand-driven craft connects her to the Bay Area Figurative and Funk movements. The ceramic vessels that have dominated Neri’s production recently evoke both earthy tactility and psychological intimacy. Neri’s use of sprayed glazes links her ceramics to the street art she produced in the late 1990s as a member of what would become the San Francisco-based Mission School, connecting a contemporary urban art form with the archaic power of pre-historical wall-painting and object-making.