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Brie Ruais is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, [1] working in large “multi-faceted” ceramic sculptures, [2] performance, [1] photography,[ citation needed] video, [3] and site-specific installation. [1]
Ruais’ work is a process-oriented, performative, [4] body-conscious strain of feminist sculpture [5] and addresses themes such as the environment, [1] eco-feminism, [6] feminist theory, [7] and embodiment. [8] Her work falls in the lineage of body-based conceptual artists Janine Antoni, [5] Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, and Eleanor Antin; [9] artists whose work engages with the land such as Michelle Stuart, [4] Ana Mendieta, [4] [2] and Richard Long; [4] as well as the gestural athleticism of action painting [9] and Richard Serra’s lead performances. [3] Her work has also been compared to artists whose work is influenced by their natural surroundings like Georgia O’Keefe and Agnes Martin. [2]
Ruais was born in 1982 in Southern California. [6] She received her BS in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt School in 2004. [10] She received her MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in 2011, where she studied with Jon Kessler. [10] [11]
Ruais’s abstract ceramic sculptures [1] retain both the primordial, earthen origins of clay [12] as well as the physical and psychological imprint of their maker. [8] Working on the floor, [6] Ruais begins her work with a predetermined set of actions [7] and an amount of clay that often equals her own bodyweight. [13] The titles of her work reference the gestures she performs, like “spreading out from center,” “compressing,” “pushing landscape,” and “making space from the inside.” [14] Her process is highly physical and it is performed quickly from beginning to end, utilizing her entire body. [6] She is described as kicking, spreading, scraping, and skimming, [6] cinching, ramming, and shoving the material across the floor or up a wall. [12] The resulting form is then cut into segments, glazed, fired, and hung on the wall. [5] The finished sculpture is embedded with the marks of this process: “whorled and rutted from fingers, elbows and boot treads”. [5] The sculptures are topographical [12] documents of the performance that formed them. [5] Ruais’ work explores both the limits of the body [5] and the material. [15]
Ruais is known for her circular wall works [15] that measure on average 80 inches (2 meters) in diameter. [16] The sculptures are made on the floor and then hung vertically on the wall. [17] They resemble clocks, starbursts, [3] ray-like forms, punctures, and wounds. [8] In Scraped Away from Center, 130lbs (Night) (2018), for example, the pigmented stoneware extends outward from the center, where Ruais knelt to make it, into a circular form with jagged edges. [16]
Brie Ruais’ work is included in Phaidon’s Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic, a global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals, published in 2017. [6] [18]
Ruais' work is in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, [51] [52] Matamoros Art In Embassies Collection, Mexico, [43] [53] Burger Collection, Hong Kong, [2] [16] [54] Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, [55] and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. [20]
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Brie Ruais is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York, [1] working in large “multi-faceted” ceramic sculptures, [2] performance, [1] photography,[ citation needed] video, [3] and site-specific installation. [1]
Ruais’ work is a process-oriented, performative, [4] body-conscious strain of feminist sculpture [5] and addresses themes such as the environment, [1] eco-feminism, [6] feminist theory, [7] and embodiment. [8] Her work falls in the lineage of body-based conceptual artists Janine Antoni, [5] Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, and Eleanor Antin; [9] artists whose work engages with the land such as Michelle Stuart, [4] Ana Mendieta, [4] [2] and Richard Long; [4] as well as the gestural athleticism of action painting [9] and Richard Serra’s lead performances. [3] Her work has also been compared to artists whose work is influenced by their natural surroundings like Georgia O’Keefe and Agnes Martin. [2]
Ruais was born in 1982 in Southern California. [6] She received her BS in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt School in 2004. [10] She received her MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in 2011, where she studied with Jon Kessler. [10] [11]
Ruais’s abstract ceramic sculptures [1] retain both the primordial, earthen origins of clay [12] as well as the physical and psychological imprint of their maker. [8] Working on the floor, [6] Ruais begins her work with a predetermined set of actions [7] and an amount of clay that often equals her own bodyweight. [13] The titles of her work reference the gestures she performs, like “spreading out from center,” “compressing,” “pushing landscape,” and “making space from the inside.” [14] Her process is highly physical and it is performed quickly from beginning to end, utilizing her entire body. [6] She is described as kicking, spreading, scraping, and skimming, [6] cinching, ramming, and shoving the material across the floor or up a wall. [12] The resulting form is then cut into segments, glazed, fired, and hung on the wall. [5] The finished sculpture is embedded with the marks of this process: “whorled and rutted from fingers, elbows and boot treads”. [5] The sculptures are topographical [12] documents of the performance that formed them. [5] Ruais’ work explores both the limits of the body [5] and the material. [15]
Ruais is known for her circular wall works [15] that measure on average 80 inches (2 meters) in diameter. [16] The sculptures are made on the floor and then hung vertically on the wall. [17] They resemble clocks, starbursts, [3] ray-like forms, punctures, and wounds. [8] In Scraped Away from Center, 130lbs (Night) (2018), for example, the pigmented stoneware extends outward from the center, where Ruais knelt to make it, into a circular form with jagged edges. [16]
Brie Ruais’ work is included in Phaidon’s Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic, a global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals, published in 2017. [6] [18]
Ruais' work is in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, [51] [52] Matamoros Art In Embassies Collection, Mexico, [43] [53] Burger Collection, Hong Kong, [2] [16] [54] Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH, [55] and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. [20]