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Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to present 鈥淏C RIPS,鈥� a solo exhibition of the Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby. For his second exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery, Ruby will present a set of large-scale collage paintings that derive their pop-like, formal patterning from the craft of quilt making. Indeed, they call to mind the utilitarian works of the quilters from Gee鈥檚 Bend in Alabama, as well as the worn denim of Japanese Boro textiles.

Using a process similar to creating a Rorschach inkblot, Ruby pours and splatters bleach onto the fold of fabric panels, making negative patterns that resemble explosions or nebulas radiating from the center. In addition, a playful band, or 鈥渞ip,鈥� of brightly colored fabric bisects each of these works. Ruby has cited Andy Warhol鈥檚 symmetrical Rorschach paintings, as well as Barnett Newman鈥檚 鈥渮ips,鈥� as influences. In the BC series of works, bleach splattered remnants and fragments of cloth are affixed to their surfaces with copious amounts of glue that still seep from their edges. These beautifully formal paintings vibrate with a meditative energy, traversing creative and destructive forces, and presenting a kind of spatial or existential acid tripping.