Publisher's Synopsis
The multitude of media and techniques used by Sterling Ruby in his work - ranging from sculpture to collage, installation to painting, ceramics to video and printing - reflects the issues he tackles: the conflict between individual impulses and mechanisms of social control, the coercive function of architectonic space, art as the domain of irrationality, the sphere of dysfunctional behaviour, minimalism and art brut, graffiti art, urban violence, desire, and pleasure.