
Exhm/advair + Lindt Autobiography (3379)
2011
Sterling Ruby's *Exhm/advair + Lindt Autobiography (3379)* is a raw and layered work combining collage and paint on cardboard, merging consumer detritus—pharmaceutical and confectionery packaging—into a visceral visual narrative. The juxtaposition of an asthma inhaler brand and a luxury chocolate label speaks to Ruby's ongoing exploration of desire, consumption, and the American condition. The cardboard support reinforces the work's deliberately abject, street-level sensibility, grounding its autobiographical impulse in the material language of everyday waste.
- Medium
- collage and paint on cardboard
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
October 5, 2017
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