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Sterling Ruby — Exhm/advair + Lindt Autobiography (3379)
Sterling Ruby

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

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale

October 5, 2017

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Sterling Ruby, 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
Year
2011
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Paint And Collage, Cardboard Support, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Paint On Cardboard, Collage, Contemporary Artist, American Artist, Raw Aesthetic, 21st Century, Gestural Style, Autobiographical, Expressive Style, Raw And Gritty, Abstract, Found Materials

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