Artist Talk: Nancy Rubins



Artist Nancy Rubins and Ann Goldstein, deputy director and Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, discuss the museum’s installation of installation of sculptures from the Our Friend Fluid Metal series.

Throughout her career, Nancy Rubins has amassed found everyday objects—mobile trailers, canoes, airplane parts, and playground equipment—into monumental sculptures. Her enormous, powerful assemblages, secured together with thin steel trusses and tension cables, explode into space and appear to defy gravity. In her series Our Friend Fluid Metal, Rubins transforms children’s equipment from playgrounds, amusement parks, and coin-operated rides into dynamic, colorful sculptures that uncannily cantilever and bloom out of the ground.

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