11 Facts About Ruby Neri

Ruby Neri was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, drawing creative influence from her parents and their friends.

Ruby Neri's work is based in abstraction and figuration, drawing inspiration from Bay Area Figuration, German Expressionism, graffiti, and folk art.

Ruby Neri previously worked as a street artist in San Francisco, and used the pseudonyms Reminisce and REM.

Ruby Neri's father is Manuel Neri, a prolific sculptor associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement, and her mother, Susan Neri, is a graphic designer.

In 1992, Ruby Neri moved from San Rafael, California to San Francisco, California to study painting at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Ruby Neri's father, Manuel was teaching at SFAI while Ruby Neri was a student, making his presence and influence in her education almost unavoidable.

In 1994, Ruby Neri moved from the Bay Area to Los Angeles, and would go on to earn her Master's of Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1998.

Ruby Neri deftly combines elements of figuration, abstraction, graffiti, and folk art through clay, plaster, and paint to create complex, expressive and kinetic sculptures.

Lately, Ruby Neri has focused her practice and is primarily making clay sculpture.

Ruby Neri uses horses as a common motif in her work, which serves as a personal symbol of her youth.

The book is a global survey of one hundred of today's leading clay and ceramic artists - Ruby Neri is included alongside notable artists such as Anders Ruhwald, Edmund de Waal, Theaster Gates, Ron Nagle, Grayson Perry, and Betty Woodman.