July 27, 2018 – September 9, 2018
Tammie Rubin (b. Chicago, Il) is an artist whose sculptural practice considers the intrinsic power of objects as signifiers, wishful contraptions, and mythic relics while investigating the tension between the readymade and the handcrafted. Using intricate motifs, Rubin delves into themes involving ritual, domestic and liturgical objects, mapping, migration, magical thinking, longing, and identity. Her installations open up dream-like spaces of unexpected associations and dislocations. Rubin received a BFA in both Ceramics and Art History from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Ceramics at the University of Washington in Seattle.
What is the artist’s studio? It has many names and varying definitions, but at its core, it is simply a place in which an artist works. How an artist works within that space, however, is multifaceted; studios become venues for contemplation, experimentation, collaboration, labor, critique, and all the like. Often mysterious to the public eye (and public imagination), the studio can be a place of refuge or a trap, a sacred space or a torment, depending on the on the artist’s progress.
In Cage Match Project Round Vlll: This is Everything, Tammie Rubin makes the studio visible––and her practice publicly accessible––within the confines of the caged trailer.
During the timeline of her exhibition, Rubin will have scheduled hours in which she will work within the cage. The act of making will vary from the very active to the most mundane of tasks. Tight and unorthodox, the cage- turned- studio is meant to challenge traditional and often romanticized perceptions of artists’ working space, as well as the realities of displacement, which forces artists into conditions that are less than ideal.
“I am usually solitary in the studio, so working in such a visible way, along with the environmental challenges of working outdoors in the Texas summer, will add a level of physical and mental endurance to my practice, as well as elements of performance. The cage will become my laboratory, a place of process and experimentation. The work I will make will not be completed there, but are sculptural components for an exhibition at Women and Their Work in November.”
-Tammie Rubin
/https://www.tammierubin.com/this-is-everything
