Ruby Sky Stiler was born in Maine in 1979. She spent her childhood in New Mexico and attended the Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University. She puts together sculptures, vases, and paintings in a way that makes one think of both classical marble figures and modern painting and collage, while not exactly being either one. There is the implied monumentality of the remote past in her use of figures and a modern elegance in their surface articulation, both of which should actually be betrayed by the fact that she uses foam board for a material. Her recent exhibitions at Nicelle Beauchene in New York and at SAKS Gallery in Geneva, weave together progressive art history and a flirtation with kitsch. The seemingly disjointed but very compelling result is a lesson in contradiction.
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