Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N State St
312.846.2600
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Sterling Ruby, from The Transient Trilogy
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Thursday Feb 18, 2010 (6pm)
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$10
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One of the rising art stars with a part-Chicago pedigree, L.A.-based Sterling Ruby is alluring partially because he's hard to pin down. His practice encompasses monolithic sculptures, mutant ceramics, mock-polemic posters, spray-painted canvases, and more — not to mention videos, six of which he screens tonight. In The Transient Trilogy, Ruby plays both a drifter who cobbles art-like artifacts out of the detritus of a marginal landscape and a film director giving notes to his actor. Triviality ups the audacity as the artist fixes the camera on a lone porn star as the guy struggles, embarrassedly, to get off. Just crass or shrewd comment on masculinity and art as masturbation (in Vito Acconci's wake)? Discuss.
