# @drawingcenter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/4E2NjNx1_8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16050133-drawingcenter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2015-06-18T15:35:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

#ThrowbackThursday “Everything I do holds a kind of gesture in it. For me, it’s this kind of dramatic gesture. A truncated gesture. It’s like an expression that was as one point very fervent and then it just gets kind of stopped.” [1]--#SterlingRuby 
In the fall of 2008, The Drawing Center organized “Sterling Ruby: CHRON”. This exhibition, presented a survey of the LA-based artist’s work in drawing with approximately fifty works spanning from 2003 to the present, including several new large-scale works conceived for the Drawing Room. The exhibit focused on the role of drawing as medium, gesture and act, in Ruby’s multivalent body of work—from graffiti-based spray paint drawings to photographic collages, nail polish abstractions, and inscribed Formica sculptures—which when viewed together revealed formal and thematic connections informed by the artist’s background in drawing. 
#SterlingRuby #CHRON #TBT 
Image: Sterling Ruby, Prison (detail), 2004. Collage and pencil on paper, 31 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches. [1] Ruby, Sterling and Post, Hans-Maarten (Interviewer). "Interview." in: Utopia Parkway. December 10, 2009. (English)

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