1. Nancy Rubins was born on 1952 and is an American sculptor and installation artist.
14 Facts About Nancy Rubins
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Nancy Rubins's family moved to Cincinnati before settling in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
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Nancy Rubins studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, where she received her BFA in 1974, and then at the University of California, Davis, where she received her MFA in 1976.
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In college, Nancy Rubins worked primarily with clay, creating igloo-like sculptures out of mud, concrete, and straw.
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Nancy Rubins was inspired by the work of Peter Voulkos and Robert Arneson.
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Nancy Rubins ended up at UC Davis finishing her MFA and studying with Arneson.
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Nancy Rubins avoided the characteristic permanence of ceramics with the constant disassembling of sculptures, collapsing her work back into the slip bucket or back into raw scraps.
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Nancy Rubins was privately commissioned to create her first public installation in 1980.
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Nancy Rubins's work overlooked the Whitehurst Freeway, blocks from the Watergate Building in Washington DC, and again caused controversy.
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Nancy Rubins is perhaps best known for building sculptures out of salvaged airplane parts, such as an installation in 1995 for the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the piece weighed nearly 10,000 pounds.
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Nancy Rubins collaborated with husband Chris Burden on a number of projects, including an installation called A Monument to Megalopolises Past and Future at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in 1987.
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Nancy Rubins started working with assembling discarded cast- aluminum playground structures.
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In 1993, Nancy Rubins was invited to participate in the Venice Biennale.
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Nancy Rubins was included in the Whitney Biennial that same year.