Brie Ruais Explained

Brie Ruais is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York,[1] working in large “multi-faceted” ceramic sculptures,[2] performance, photography, video,[3] and site-specific installation.

Ruais’ work is a process-oriented, performative,[4] body-conscious strain of feminist sculpture[5] and addresses themes such as the environment, eco-feminism,[6] feminist theory,[7] and embodiment.[8] Her work falls in the lineage of body-based conceptual artists Janine Antoni, Bruce Nauman, Lynda Benglis, and Eleanor Antin;[9] artists whose work engages with the land such as Michelle Stuart, Ana Mendieta, and Richard Long; as well as the gestural athleticism of action painting and Richard Serra’s lead performances. Her work has also been compared to artists whose work is influenced by their natural surroundings like Georgia O’Keefe and Agnes Martin.

Early life

Ruais was born in 1982 in Southern California. She received her BS in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt School in 2004.[10] She received her MFA from the School of the Arts at Columbia University in 2011, where she studied with Jon Kessler.[11]

Work

Ruais’s abstract ceramic sculptures retain both the primordial, earthen origins of clay[12] as well as the physical and psychological imprint of their maker. Working on the floor, Ruais begins her work with a predetermined set of actions and an amount of clay that often equals her own bodyweight.[13] The titles of her work reference the gestures she performs, like “spreading out from center,” “compressing,” “pushing landscape,”  and “making space from the inside.”[14] Her process is highly physical and it is performed quickly from beginning to end, utilizing her entire body. She is described as kicking, spreading, scraping, and skimming, cinching, ramming, and shoving the material across the floor or up a wall. The resulting form is then cut into segments, glazed, fired, and hung on the wall. The finished sculpture is embedded with the marks of this process: “whorled and rutted from fingers, elbows and boot treads”.  The sculptures are topographical documents of the performance that formed them.  Ruais’ work explores both the limits of the body and the material.[15]

Ruais is known for her circular wall works that measure on average 80 inches (2 meters) in diameter.[16] The sculptures are made on the floor and then hung vertically on the wall.[17] They resemble clocks, starbursts, ray-like forms, punctures, and wounds. In Scraped Away from Center, 130lbs (Night) (2018), for example, the pigmented stoneware extends outward from the center, where Ruais knelt to make it, into a circular form with jagged edges.

Books

Brie Ruais’ work is included in Phaidon’s Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic, a global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, chosen by leading art world professionals, published in 2017.[18]

Exhibitions

Awards

Collections

Ruais' work is in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX,[51] [52] Matamoros Art In Embassies Collection, Mexico,[53] Burger Collection, Hong Kong,[54] Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH,[55] and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

References

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  2. News: Josenhans. Frauke V.. May–June 2020. Terrestrial Affair. 63. ArtAsiaPacific. 118.
  3. News: Rosenberg. Karen. 2013-06-20. ‘Vessels’. en-US. The New York Times. 2022-02-10. 0362-4331.
  4. Web site: Ollman. Leah. 2021-02-23. The Measure of All Things. 2022-01-20. ARTnews.com. en-US.
  5. Web site: Mizota. Sharon. 2018-05-19. Brie Ruais puts all of her body weight into each sculpture she makes. live. 2022-01-20. Los Angeles Times. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20180520082647/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-brie-ruais-review-20180518-htmlstory.html . 2018-05-20 .
  6. Book: Elderton, Louisa. Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic in Contemporary Art. Phaidon. 2017. 978 0 7148 7460 9. New York. 250–253. English.
  7. News: Marsh. Jenine. Summer 2018. Brie Ruais: Attempting to Hold the Landscape 2016-2017. 48. cmagazine.
  8. Web site: Larkin. Daniel. 2022-01-19. Using Clay to Concretize the Psychological State of Being Wounded. 2022-02-10. Hyperallergic. en-US.
  9. Web site: Ollman. Leah. 2014-08-01. Getting physical with clay and fiber at Marc Selwyn. 2022-02-10. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
  10. Web site: MacAdam. Barbara A.. February 3, 2022. Brie Ruais: Inside her Process & Partnership with Clay. 2022-02-10. Art & Object. en.
  11. News: Indrisek. Scott. September 9, 2014. Brie Ruais Gets Physical with her Material. Blouin Artinfo.
  12. Web site: Trainor. James. Oct 1, 2014. Brie Ruais. 2022-02-10. bombmagazine.org.
  13. News: Wilson. Michael. April 24, 2012. "Movement in Three Parts". TimeOut New York.
  14. Web site: Ruais. Brie. 2022-02-01. The Proof in the Print. 2022-02-22. The Brooklyn Rail. en-US.
  15. Web site: Wei. Lilly. 2014-01-15. Claytime! Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art-World Mainstream. 2022-02-10. ARTnews.com. en-US.
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  19. Web site: Cascone. Sarah. 2021-07-27. How Brie Ruais Uses Her Own Body to Shape Her Clay Sculptures, and the Desert Sounds That Keep Her Motivated. 2022-02-22. Artnet News. en-US.
  20. Web site: Voeller. Megan. June 1, 2021. For ‘Taking Space’ at PAFA, women artists are as monumental as they want to be. 2022-02-22. The Philadelphia Inquirer. en.
  21. News: Richter. Von Mathais. August 8, 2021. Bilder einer Geisterfahrt. Markische Allgemeine.
  22. Web site: THIS IS AMERICA - Exhibitions - Albertz Benda. 2022-02-22. www.albertzbenda.com.
  23. Web site: Southern Utah Museum of Art. November 14, 2021. Earth-based exhibit at SUMA features Montello resident artists from around the country. 2022-02-22. KSL News. en.
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  33. Book: The Form Will Find Its Way: Contemporary Ceramic Sculptural Abstraction. NCECA. 2019.
  34. Web site: 2017-02-13. Rosy Keyser & Brie Ruais. 2022-02-22. Wall Street International. en.
  35. Web site: DC's American University Museum Shows Coco Chanel, and Abstraction in Painting, Sculpture, Photos, and Mixed Media. 2022-02-22. ArtfixDaily. en.
  36. Book: Zilber, Emily. Crafted: Objects in Flux. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 2015. en.
  37. Web site: Howard. Will. 2015-02-06. Ceramics Show Dazzles. 2022-02-22. The Student Life. en-US.
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  39. Web site: EAF14. 2022-02-22. Socrates Sculpture Park. en.
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  43. Web site: BRIE RUAIS - Artist - Albertz Benda. 2022-01-20. www.albertzbenda.com.
  44. Web site: Brie Ruais 1st Place 2021 Virginia A. Groot Foundation. 2022-02-10. www.virginiaagrootfoundation.org.
  45. Web site: Brie Ruais Works Pollock Krasner Image Collection. 2022-02-10. www.pkf-imagecollection.org. en.
  46. Web site: Brie Ruais. 2022-02-10. Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. en-US.
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  48. Web site: Brie Ruais. February 22, 2022.
  49. Web site: Montello Foundation. 2022-02-22. www.montellofoundation.org.
  50. Web site: Brie Ruais. 2022-02-10. Dieu Donné. en-US.
  51. Web site: Armstrong. Annie. 2019-04-11. Dallas Art Museum Adds Eight Works to Collection with Dallas Art Fair Acquisition Fund. 2022-02-22. ARTnews. en-US.
  52. News: Israel. Nancy Cohen. April 2019. Zoë Buckman at Albertz Benda. 89–91. Patron Magazine.
  53. Web site: MATAMOROS Consulate 2019 – U.S. Department of State. 2022-02-22. en-US.
  54. News: Tuttle. Martha. May–June 2020. Inside Burger Collection: Terrestrial Affair, Brie Ruais. 64–65. ArtAsiaPacific. 118.
  55. News: Mahanes. Melissa. March–April 2021. A Luxury Hotel and Fine Dining are only part of the story of The Joseph. Sophisticated Living Magazine.

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