Kim Rugg

Canadian | 1963

Kim Rugg is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1963. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Torrance Art Museum have featured Kim Rugg's work in the past.Kim Rugg's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Among the artist's sold works is "Crowded Islands", which realized 200 USD at Santa Fe Art Auction in 2022Kim Rugg has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for LA Weekly in August 2019.

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Fingers Crossed

By Kim Rugg

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Chewbacca

By Kim Rugg

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November 21st #2

By Kim Rugg

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At Auction

Notable Lots

I Still Haven't Decided What To Do Next - Kim Rugg

I Still Haven't Decided What To Do Next ,2007

By Kim Rugg

Crowded Islands ,2013

By Kim Rugg

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Super Heroes ,2007

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Recent Auction Results

Crowded Islands ,2013

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I Still Haven't Decided What To Do Next ,2007

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I Still Haven't Decided What To Do Next ,2007

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Past Exhibitions

Generation W(ar)

Torrance Art Museum

Torrance | California | USA

Jun 15, 2019 - Aug 24, 2019

Demarcate: Territorial Shift in Personal and Societal Mapping

Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose

San Jose | California | USA

Feb 28, 2016 - May 29, 2016

Art Culver City Los Angeles

Mark Moore Gallery

Culver City | Los Angeles | California | USA

Nov 05, 2015 - Dec 19, 2015

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Articles

LA Weekly Aug 13, 2019

War is not healthy for children and other living things, the classic sign says, and we don鈥檛 need more evidence to prove it.

10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

黑料不打烊 Oct 16, 2013

In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes the Johannes Vogt Gallery鈥檚 first solo show with Brazilian artist Tatiana Blass, the exhibition Absence by Sophia Calle at Paula Cooper Gallery that is inspired by the loss...

Aesthetica Aug 17, 2011

Devised with gallery artist Matthew Houlding, this exhibition at Ceri Hand Gallery draws on a key text by Henri Lefebvre and the autobiographical

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Coverage

鈥� ..A consistent theme throughout all of her work, patterns within the tactics of journalists, broadcasters, historians, and reporters alike are given clarity through Rugg's purposeful distortion... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Rugg is renowned for her meticulous and labor-intensive work which involves deconstructing and slicing an object into minute shards to then re-organize and reconstruct it according to arbitrary codes... 鈥�
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Nettie Horn

鈥� ..Rugg also features works in her traditional newspaper vernacular; her seemingly playful rearrangement of newspapers鈥� individual letters, photos, and headlines subvert the authority of the messenger, and... 鈥�
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鈥� ..Through this visual ruse, Rugg critiques the media's tendency to seduce its viewership through sensation and illusion rather than verisimilitude... 鈥�
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鈥� ..At first glance, Rugg's work appears disconnected from our regular lines of communication, but upon closer inspection, her visual subterfuge astutely mimics that of the everyday propagandist... 鈥�
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