Elyse Gonzales — director of Ruby City, a contemporary art center in Southtown —...
, a contemporary art center in Southtown, stands plain on one side and bizarre on the other.
Elyse Gonzales — director of Ruby City, a contemporary art center in Southtown — joined the gallery’s staff in February 2020 after 11 years in leadership at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California at Santa Barbara.Pace had the idea for Ruby City in a dream, though the building achieved its ultimate form through a design by the architect Sir David Adjaye.
The exhibition is meant to bring those strains together, along with “a third group of objects that represent Linda kind of symbolically, if not in actuality,” she said. I guess maybe the shorter answer would have been, not everything has to be representative. Things don’t have to look the way they should in the world.
Work by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo is featured in Ruby City’s newest exhibition, called “Tangible/Nothing.” A line of shoes has been built into drywall, covered with cow bladder and secured with surgical thread. The shoes belonged to people who disappeared during a time of political upheaval in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, said Elyse Gonzales, the gallery’s director.A breakdown of key state and local races and candidates in the May 24 primary runoff.
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