Architectural Digest
Brie Ruais standing in front of her stained-ceramic piece Unfolding (Liquid Color)
GERTRUDE
Brie Ruais - Private Exhibition Preview
Gertrude is a contemporary art salon that will be holding a discussion and preview of Brie Ruais’s exhibition on November 6, 2013 at 7PM. To get more information on the preview visit the link below.
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Brie Ruais’ Studio in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. September, 2013. Photo by Corydon Cowansage
Interview-Brie Ruais
by CORYDON COWANSAGE
In the last week of September I visited the Sunset Park studio of Brie Ruais as she prepared for her first solo show at Nicole Klagsbrun’s pop up space. Ruais works with clay, creating large, gestural reliefs that reference both the body and the landscape. Her current work is the result of a very physical, performative process. She uses her own body weight, and sometimes that of a collaborator, to sculpt a comparably-sized mound of clay—pushing, kneading, and spreading the material. The ensuing pieces act as a record of these actions, and sometimes document behaviors in a given space itself. During the studio visit Ruais told me about her process, her relationship to the medium, some of the ideas behind this particular body of work, and what she’s planning for her upcoming solo show, XO……
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