



Woman Reclining in Landscape
2023
A monumental ceramic figure commands the room in Ruby Neri's 2023 work "Woman Reclining in Landscape," a hand-built sculpture measuring 113 × 56 × 48.3 centimeters that positions the female body as both subject and terrain. The reclining form sprawls with uninhibited physicality, its surfaces animated by Neri's characteristically expressive glazework, where color pools and bleeds across contours as though the figure is simultaneously emerging from and dissolving into the earth itself. The result is a work that refuses passivity despite its recumbent pose, radiating a raw, grounded energy that is entirely Neri's own. Neri works within a lineage of figurative ceramics that acknowledges folk traditions, Pre-Columbian sculpture, and California funk art, while arriving at something bracingly contemporary. Her figures are never idealized. They are bodily, assertive, and unruly in the best sense, bearing the visible marks of the artist's hands in a way that insists on process as meaning. In "Woman Reclining in Landscape," the landscape of the title is both literal and metaphorical, suggesting that the woman's body is itself a kind of geography, abundant, powerful, and shaped by time and pressure. For collectors, this work represents Neri at a confident moment in her practice, operating at a scale that amplifies the intimacy of her handmade process into something genuinely commanding. Signed by the artist, the piece is available through KOSAKU KANECHIKA and offers a significant opportunity to acquire a work that holds its own in institutional conversation while retaining the tactile warmth that defines her best output.
- Medium
- Ceramic with glaze
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · KOSAKU KANECHIKA
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