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Ruby Sky Stiler

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  • Biography
    Ruby Sky Stiler, 2024. Photo: Ross Collab
    Ruby Sky Stiler, 2024. Photo: Ross Collab

    Ruby Sky Stiler (b. 1979) was born in Portland, ME and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her multi-dimensional practice draws from diverse time periods, artistic movements, and genres, imbuing familial and political structures with her own feminist values and insights. Nodding to art historical archetypes, Stiler’s work reimagines and recasts the history of figuration and the nude through intricate processes of disruption, fragmentation, and layering.

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    Drawing from her background as a printmaker, Stiler deftly navigates the tension between flatness and three-dimensionality, skillfully interweaving content with craft. Harnessing her decades-long engagement with diverse visual histories and techniques, Stiler reframes and updates the histories of collage and Cubism. Her work serves as a dynamic synthesis of past and present, melding Greco-Roman sculpture and Art Deco illustrations with contemporary textiles and internet-sourced imagery. 

    Her relief paintings simultaneously recall modernist block printed textiles and architectural details. These paintings combine resin, acrylic paint, graphite, and heavy watercolor paper into layered tiles that rupture and playfully subvert the art historical hegemony of the modernist grid. Central to this subversion, Stiler’s collaged figures challenge gendered art historical archetypes, depicting lesser-known tropes: a father with his children, lone matriarchs, and female artists, among others. She mines art history to combat the dichotomy between, in her own words, “woman as subject of painting versus creator of image.” Encompassing painting, sculpture, and design, Stiler’s work occupies an interdisciplinary space, challenging figure/ground and subject/creator hierarchies.

    By rearticulating the past in her own distinctive vernacular, Stiler invites critical reflection on our present moment. Stiler explains, “It is very personal, but my reduction of forms also makes it more accessible, more like mirrors for people to project their own stories and histories into.” She adds, "What I strive for is to create a space where viewers can find connections and resonances that speak to our shared humanity."

    Stiler’s solo exhibitions include New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (2022); Group Relief, Fairfield University Art Museum, CT (2020); Fresco, Saint-Gaudens Memorial Park, Cornish, NH (2019); Ghost Versions, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (2015); and Inherited and Borrowed Types, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, OR (2010), among others. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Friends & Lovers, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY (2023); No Forms, Hill Art Foundation, New York, NY (2022); Classic Beauty: 21st-Century Artists on Ancient [Greek] Form, Providence College Galleries, RI (2018); The Times, FLAG Art Foundation, NY (2017); We Are What We Hide, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art & Design, Portland, ME (2013); and the Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY (2010), among others. Her work is in the collections of Fairfield University Art Museum, CT; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI. 

  • Series

    • Sculpture
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      Sculpture

      Rearticulating the past in her own distinctive vernacular, Stiler juxtaposes visual information from academic and popular sources in order to reflect on our present moment. Her sculptures often simulate high-art...
    • Relief Painting
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      Relief Painting

      Stiler’s paintings draw from her background in printmaking. Playing with the tension between flatness and three-dimensionality, her experimental practice imbues the history of collage and cubism with disparate references, including...
  • Other Exhibitions

    • No Forms, Hill Art Foundation
      Exhibitions

      No Forms

      Hill Art Foundation May 12 - July 15, 2022
      Harmony Hammond, Jennie C. Jones, and Ruby Sky Stiler included in the group exhibition No Forms curated by Margot Norton at Hill Art Foundation in New York, NY. The institution's...
    • Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler–New Patterns, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum
      Exhibitions

      Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler–New Patterns

      The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum January 24 - May 15, 2022
      Ruby Sky Stiler's one-person exhibition Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler—New Patterns at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY. The institution's press...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler: Group Relief, Fairfield University Art Museum
      Exhibitions

      Ruby Sky Stiler: Group Relief

      Fairfield University Art Museum September 11 - December 19, 2020
      Ruby Sky Stiler's solo exhibition Ruby Sky Stiler: Group Relief at the Fairfield University Art Museum, CT. The institution's press release follows: Featuring new relief paintings and figurative furniture-sculpture by...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler: Ghost Versions, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
      Exhibitions

      Ruby Sky Stiler: Ghost Versions

      The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum May 3 - October 25, 2015
      Ruby Sky Stiler's solo exhibition Ruby Sky Stiler: Ghost Versions at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum's press release release follows: Ruby Sky Stiler’s (b. 1979,...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler: Sun Breaker, Locust Projects
      Exhibitions

      Ruby Sky Stiler: Sun Breaker

      Locust Projects February 28 - April 18, 2015
      Ruby Sky Stiler's solo exhibition Ruby Sky Stiler: Sun Breaker at Locust Projects, Miami, FL. The institution's press release follows: Locust Projects is pleased to present Sun Breaker, a new...
  • Public Collections
    Ruby Sky Stiler
    Old Woman (bird shadow and rabbit sketch), 2021
    Acrylic paint, acrylic resin, glue, graphite on panel
    Collection of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum

    Fairfield University Art Museum, CT
    The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
    Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI 

  • Videos
    • Ruby Sky Stiler

      Ruby Sky Stiler

      Frieze New York May 10, 2021
      Meet artist Ruby Sky Stiler at Frieze New York 2021, presented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery
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    • Ruby Sky Stiler for Studies in Quarantine

      Ruby Sky Stiler for Studies in Quarantine

      Rava Films April 27, 2020
      This is the first episode of 'Studies in Quarantine:' A video series using only the remote tools at our disposal that looks at how artists...
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    • New York Close-Up: Daniel Gordon & Ruby Sky Stiler Take Baby Steps

      New York Close-Up: Daniel Gordon & Ruby Sky Stiler Take Baby Steps

      Art21 February 6, 2015
      What’s the art of balancing work and family? From their home in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, married artists Daniel Gordon and Ruby Sky Stiler candidly discuss...
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  • Articles / Reviews
    • “Artist with Green Palette” (2024), canvas, acrylic, pencil, and jade adhesive on panel, 44 x 34 inches. All images © Ruby Sky Stiler, courtesy of the artist and alexander Gray Associates, New York, shared with permission

      Ruby Sky Stiler Reassesses Women’s Role in Art History in Geometric Portraits

      Colossal
      February 27, 2025 Up close, the irregularly gridded, geometric backgrounds of Ruby Sky Stiler ’s paintings evoke patchwork or the patterns of agricultural...
    • A Nathalie Ziegler chandelier is mounted above the dining room’s midcentury Scandinavian table and chairs, a Donald Baechler work hangs next to the shelves, and a painting by Ruby Sky Stiler is displayed above a Johanna Grawunder console for Glas Italia. Photo: Genevieve Garruppo; Styled by Lili Abir Regen

      Frank de Biasi Crafts a Chic Manhattan Apartment for an Art Adviser’s Adventurous Collection

      Galerie Magazine
      October 11, 2024 How art adviser Astrid Hill ended up in her home on New York’s Upper East Side was, as she puts...
    • “Artist with Muse” (2022), acrylic, acrylic resin, paper, glue, and graphite on panel, 60 x 50 inches.

      In Richly Patterned Portraits, Ruby Sky Stiler Dismantles Art History’s Most Persistent Archetypes

      Colossal
      November 28, 2022 Throughout the history of Western art, certain tropes occur again and again in painting and sculpture. The motif of mother...
    • "NO FORMS"

      The New Yorker
      July 1, 2022 The concept of Minimalism has become so mainstream that it’s now as likely to evoke a tidy sock drawer as...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler, "Blue Nude," 2021. Acrylic paint, acrylic resin, paper, glue, and graphite on panel, 44 x 50 inches. Collection of Debbie and Mitchell Rechler, New York. Photo: JSP Art Photography.

      Ruby Sky Stiler: New Patterns

      The Brooklyn Rail
      March 1, 2022 Whenever I’ve been lucky enough to see Ruby Sky Stiler’s work in person, I’ve come away thinking about the idea...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler: Reflecting On Canvas

      Metal
      February 4, 2022 Through her practice and exploration, the Brooklyn-based artist Ruby Sky Stiler finds in the figurative representation of portraiture an approach...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler’s "Self-Portrait With Palette" (2021), at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery. Credit: Ruby Sky Stiler and Nicelle Beauchene Gallery; JSP Art Photography

      TriBeCa Gallery Guide: New York’s Most Vibrant Art Scene

      The New York Times
      October 28, 2021 The large-scale arrival of new and veteran dealers has given the neighborhood its first unifying theme in 60 years. Here...
    • A Brooklyn Row House Gets an Artistic Revamp With Subtle Nods to Its History

      Architectural Digest
      November 18, 2020 The ingredients for a spirited and creative renovation were all there: an ebullient art collection, a historic building with lots...
    • Daniel Gordon and Ruby Sky Stiler in their Brooklyn home, 2014. Production still from the Art21 "New... [+] Image courtesy Art21.org.

      Watch About It. Understanding Art And Artists At Art21.org

      Forbes
      November 10, 2018 Art21 now has two additional digital storytelling products: Extended Play and New York Closeup . Extended Play is a series...
    • Installation view, "Ruby Sky Stiler: Ghost Versions," The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2015.

      Art and Its Inspiration, Side by Side, at the Aldrich

      The New York Times
      July 11, 2015 Stepping into the Leir Atrium at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum , visitors encounter a motley group of objects arranged...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler, Sun Breaker, 2015. Installation view at Locust Projects, Miami. Photo Credit: Zack Balber with Ginger Photography Inc.

      Sun Breaker

      The Miami Rail
      March 11, 2015 Locust Projects February 29 – April 18, 2015 A functional aesthetics is necessitated, in part, by climate. For hot climes,...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler, 2012. Photo: Alexis Dahan

      Ruby Sky Stiler

      Purple Magazine
      September 2, 2012 Ruby Sky Stiler was born in Maine in 1979. She spent her childhood in New Mexico and attended the Rhode...
    • TBA review: Ruby Sky Stiler's figurative sculptures

      Oregon Live
      September 15, 2010 Perhaps it sounds prosaic to observe that art history forms the building blocks of contemporary art. But, in the work...
    • Left: Ruby Sky Stiler, "Nude from Parts," (Fig.1), 2010, foam, acrylic resin, foamcore, 28 1/2 x 66 1/2 x 13”. Right: Ruby Sky Stiler, "Untitled," 2010, paper, spray paint, 5 x 7 1/2”. From “Inherited and Borrowed Types,” 2010.

      RUBY SKY STILER

      Artforum
      August 31, 2010 Ruby Sky Stiler’s handsome yet disorderly foamcore sculptures, which often reference classical antiquity, have been exhibited at Callicoon Fine Arts...
    • Daniel Gordon, Thiry-One Days & Ruby Sky Stiler, Special Project in Callicoon on 07/17/10

      Art F City
      July 28, 2010 Daniel Gordon, Thiry-One Days & Ruby Sky Stiler, Special Project Date: Saturday, July 17th 2010 – Saturday, August 28th 2010...
    • Ruby Sky Stiler, "An Earlier Vessel"

      In Words: Ruby Sky Stiler

      BOMB Magazine
      May 25, 2009 In this edition of In Words, artist Ruby Sky Stiler talks about her practice and her upcoming solo show at...

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