Nancy Rubins

Nancy Rubins will present two monumental sculptures of found airplane parts in her first sculpture exhibition in New York in six years. The two sculptures form a single piece entitled Small Forest, filling two rooms of the gallery with a span reaching 45 x 35 feet.

Comprised of parts collected from airplane graveyards in the Mojave Desert, Rubins’ sculptures challenge gravity with their tenuous engineering and explosive, hovering expanses. The seemingly precarious structures cantilever into space producing an energetic sense of movement, which Roberta Smith of The New York Times has described as “…movement as much implied as depicted…..held in an almost impossible suspension that is not unlike flying itself”.

Nancy Rubins lives and works in Topanga Canyon, CA. Her sculptures have recently been exhibited at Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy, the Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, and the Foundation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Paris. Her work is part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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Nancy Rubins