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This new installation features approximately 50 works by national and international artists as well as those with San Antonio and Texas ties, including recent acquisitions on view for the first time. Tangible/Nothing explores how the invisible or the seemingly mundane can reveal great meaning. Some works represent apparent voids, vestiges of what鈥檚 missing or subjects not pictured鈥� a pair of arms bereft of a body, a woman represented only by her purse or Miss America seen only as a floating crown. Other works represent or incorporate everyday objects that stand in for big ideas, such as empty paint cans representing a white, heroic vision of America鈥檚 history or a bright pink stove calling out the pervasiveness of traditional gender roles.

鈥淭angible/Nothing speaks to two different artistic approaches used by many artists today,鈥� said Elyse A. Gonzales, director of Ruby City. 鈥淭he first is the removal or purposeful avoidance of selected objects, while the other makes use of commonplace things, sometimes even representing them.  Tangible/Nothing demonstrates how artists have used these methods to great effect to address loss, identity, gender, history, environmental concerns鈥� or to question the very nature of art. It was fascinating to see how these alternative ideas of ubiquity and absence factored into many works in the collection considering they have shaped so much of my thinking about our late founder Linda Pace and her legacy, here and beyond.鈥�