Sterling Ruby DRFTRS (5033), 2014 Collage and paint on paper 36.2 x 28.6 cm Collage plays a significant role in Sterling Ruby’s prolific and interdisciplinary practice, which ranges from painting to ceramics, and from sculpture to video. In previous collages, formal and thematic concerns of the artist came into view through an obsessive taxonomy of images that included horror movies, hip-hop, prisons, pre- and post-operative transsexuals, graffiti, institutional systems, engines, nail art, public sculpture, crafts, human skulls, excavation sites, burial grounds, nebulas, and galaxies.
