Nancy Rubins

NANCY RUBINS Artist Bio

Born in Naples, Texas.
Lives and Works in Topanga Canyon, California.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COMMISSIONED WORKS

2006
"Big Pleasure Point," at Lincoln Center, New York with The Public Art Fund.
"Collages," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
SCULPTURE CENTER, New York.

2005
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
"Small Forest, "PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

2003
FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN, France.
NEUEN GALERIE, Graz, Austria

2001
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
GAGOSIAN GALLERY, Beverly Hills, California.

1999
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
MIAMI ART MUSEUM, Florida.

1997
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
ASPEN ART MUSEUM, Aspen, Colorado.
ARTPACE, San Antonio, Texas.

1995
GALERIE PHILOMENE MAGERS, Cologne, Germany.
RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY, Chicago, Illinois.
"Projects 49," THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York.

1994
PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Nancy Rubins: Airplane Parts and Building, A Large Growth for San Diego," curated by Kathryn Kanjo, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO, San Diego, California.

1993
"Mattresses and Cakes," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
KUNSTVEREIN LINGEN, Lingen, Germany.
"Aperto," VENICE BIENNALE, Italy.

1992
GALERIE PATRICK DE BROCK, Antwerp, Belgium.
MILLER NORDENHAKE, Cologne, Germany.
BURNETT MILLER GALLERY, Los Angeles, California.

1991
THE DRAWING CENTER, New York, New York.

1987
"Monument to Megapolises Past and Future," (collaboration with Chris Burden), LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS (L.A.C.E.), Los Angeles, CA.

1986
"Sprockets Moon," (collaboration with Chris Burden), NEW LANGTON ARTS, San Francisco, CA.

1982
"Worlds Apart," Commission, WASHINGTON PROJECT FOR THE ARTS, Washington, D.C.
O.K. HARRIS GALLERY, New York.

1980
O.K. HARRIS GALLERY, New York.
"Big Bil-Bored," CERMACK PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER, Berwyn, Illinois.

1979
Commission, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee, Florida.

1978
80 LANGTON STREET, San Francisco, California.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2004
"Paper," PATRICIA FAURE GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA.

2003
"American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS, New York.
"100 Artists See God," INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL, Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, Traveling Exhibition.
"The American Landscape," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Sculpture," MICHAEL KOHN GALLERY, Los Angeles.
"Belvedere Dell'Arte, Orizzonti", FORTE BELVEDERE, Firenze

2002
"Markings: Constructing form through drawing,"MAK CENTER FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE, Los Angeles, CA.
"Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

2001
"Summer 2001," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

2000
"Metal," STEFFANY MARTZ, New York.

1999
"The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999," KOHN TURNER GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA.
Group Show: Walton Ford, Suzanne McClelland, Santi Moix, James Nares, Elliott Puckette, Nancy Rubins, and Michael Zwack, PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Powder: The Myth of Mortality," ASPEN ART MUSEUM, Colorado.

1998
Group Show: Suzanne McClelland, Elliott Puckette & Nancy Rubins, PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997," LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Travels to: Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1997
"Art on Paper," WEATHERSPOON ART GALLERY, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
"Trash. When Waste Materials Become Art," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
d'Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy.
"Summer 97," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York.
"Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawings," MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York..
"Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997," LOUISIANA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Humlebaek, Denmark. Travels to: Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany.

1996
"Sculpture: Donald Baechler, Konstantin Kakanias, Nancy Rubins," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Serge Spitzer, Fred Sandback, Nancy Rubins, BURNETT MILLER GALLERY, Santa Monica, CA.

1995
"1995 Whitney Biennial" curated by Klaus Kertess, WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NewYork, March 22 - June 4.
"The Mind has a Thousand Eyes," BURNETT MILLER GALLERY, Santa Monica, California.
"Summer 1995," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.

1994
"Summer '94," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
"Untitled...," POSTMASTERS GALLERY, New York.
"Country Sculpture," LE CONSORTIUM, Dijon, France.
"(cut)-Los Angeles-90'ernes Kunstscene," KUNSTFORENINGEN, Copenhagen, Denmark.
"International '94," SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK, Long Island City, New York.

1993
"Thoughts That Fit Like Air: Herbert Hamak, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Thom Merrick, Nancy Rubins," ART & PUBLIC, Geneva, Switzerland.
"Enclosion: Sonia Labouriau, Kirsten Mosher, Dan Peterman, Nancy Rubins," NEW YORK KUNSTHALLE, New York.
"Artificial Paradises: Balks, Burden Gormely, Hayward, Potter, Rubins," BURNETT MILLER GALLERY, Los Angeles, California.
"Aperto," 45th VENICE BIENNALE, Venice, Italy.
"Differentes Natures : Visions de l'Art Contemporain," Etablissement Public pour l'Amenagement de la region de la Defense, Lindau, France.
"Ordnung und Zerstorung," Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt, Munich, Germany.
"The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California," ARTS GALLERY , California State University, Fullerton, California.
"Simply Made in America," THE ALDRICH MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Ridgefield, Connecticut; (traveling to: THE CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER,
Cincinnati, Ohio; KNOXVILLE MUSEUM OF ART, Knoxville, Tennessee; BUTLER MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Butler, Ohio; KRANNERT MUSEUM OF ART, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

1992
"Lax," GALERIE KRINZINGER, Vienna, Austria.
"Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins," STEIN/GLADSTONE GALLERY, New York.
"Pedro Cabrita Reis, Nancy Rubins, Franz West," BURNETT MILLER GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA.
"Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s," MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Los Angeles, CA.

1991
"Marking Time: Nancy Rubins, Angela Bulloch, John Reilly, Jacob El Hanani" THE DRAWING CENTER, Center for the Study and Exhibition of Drawings, New York.
"Lost & Found," SCULPTURE CENTER, New York.
"Object/Context," THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM, University of Pennsylvania, PA.

1990
"Art in the Anchorage 1990: In the Vaults of the Brooklyn Bridge," CREATIVE TIME , New York.

1988
"Sculpture at the Point,"THREE RIVERS ARTS FESTIVAL" Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1987
"Spatial Considerations," MARYLAND INSTITUTE COLLEGE OF THE ART, Baltimore, Maryland.
"Artist's Statements," U.N. Plaza, Vienna, Austria.

1986
"Group Show at the Alexandra Hotel," Los Angeles, California.
"Southern California Assemblages," SANTA BARBARA CONTEMPORARY ARTS FORUM, Santa Barbara, California.

1985
"A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985," THE ART MUSEUM, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.

1983
"Six Mobile Homes," NEW LANGTON ARTS, San Francisco, California.

1982
"Sculptors at U. C. Davis, Past and Present," UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS, Davis, California.

1981
AMERICAN ACADEMY AND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND LETTERS, New York.

1980
"Art on the Beach," Battery Park Landfill, CREATIVE TIME, New York.

1977
"Works in the World," UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
"Installation," UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS, Davis, California.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2006
Pincus, Robert L. "For Nancy Rubins, Some 'Poetic Justice'," SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE, Jan 15, 2006


2003
Virilio, Paul. "Unknown Quantity," Three color reproductions, Thames & Hudson, New York.
"The American Landscape," WWW.VILLAGEVOICE.COM, July
"Another Country," ARTREVIEW, July/August

2002
"After the Towers," The New Yorker, July 15, 2002.
Baker, Kenneth. "Getting History All Tangled Up: San Jose Exhibition Fails to Convey Women's Struggles as artists" San Francisco Chornicle, July 1, 2002
Beeler, Monique. "Post-war Contributions of State's Female Artists" The Argus, The Review, The Tribune, The Herald, The Times-Star July 12, 2002
Cheng, Scarlet. "California Grrrls, The Major Survey 'Parallels and Intersections:Art/Women/ California' sheds light on an oft-neglected group of female artists from 1950-2000" Calendar Live, Sept 29, 2002
Fischer, Jack. "Gathering a half-century from Women's Perspective" San Jose Mercury News, June 30, 2002 (with Rubins image)
F.,L. Untitled. Alaska Airlines Magazine. July 2002, p. 8.
Fuller, Diana Burgess and Daniela Salvioni. Women/Art/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000. University of California Press, 2002. (Rubins on page115-7)
Koppman, Debra. "'Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000'" Artweek. Vol 33, No. 5, June 2002, p. 6
"Lecture on Women and Art" Town Crier, Los Altos, CA, July 17, 2002.
Nasatir, Judith, "Second Sight," HOUSE & GARDEN, September 2002.
Pagnoux, Estelle. "Women: Feminism influences art: Fifty Years marked by History, Technology." Stepping Out: Silicon Valley Community Paper, Sept 4, 2002
Spruill, Neely Barnwell. "Women's World" Elle Decor August/September 2002, p 36
W., J. "'Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California, 1950-2000'" ArtForum International. May 2002, p. 75.

2001
Review. Artforum, December.
Review. The New Yorker, April 23 & 30.
Review. Abstract Art Online, April11.
Spears, Dorothy. Review. Art on Paper, July-August.
Sheets, Hilarie M. Review. Art News, Summer.
Princenthal, Nancy. Review. Art in America, October.

2000
"Parallels and Intersection: A Remarkable History of Woman Artist In California, 1950-2000," University of California Press, Berkeley.

1999
"Artist Doesn't Miss the Boat," The San Diego Union Tribune, November 15.
Los Angeles Times, November 12.
Ollman Leah, Art Reviews, L.A. Times, October 1.
Weil, Rex, Artnews, September.
Costello, David, "Collecting," The Wall Street Journal, July 30.
De Xaxas Mas, Xavier, "Nancy Rubins fascina e irrita en EE.UU. Con su arte hecho con material de basura"La Vanguardia, July 4.
Soloman, Deborah, "How to Succeed In Art," The New York Times Magazine, June 27.
Morgan, Robert, Exhibitions Review, Review, May 15.
Hayt, Elizabeth, "Monuments of Junk Artfully Compacted," The New York Times, May 2. Blackburn, Meg, Art Listings,NY Arts, Vol. 4 No.5, May.
"Artist of the Month: Nancy Rubins," Tatler, May.
Vincent, Stephen, Previews, Art & Auction, April 15.
Bravo, Armando Alvarez, "Nancy Rubins: a partir da la chatarra," el Nuevo Herald, February 14.
Turner, Elisa, "The Artist as a body-snatcher: And now she is lusting after Concord Corpse," The Herald, February 7.
Dietsch, Deborah, "Flying Debris," Sun Sentinel, February 4.
Kaylan, Melik, "The Natural", Town & Country, January.

1998
Wallach, Amei. "Vision of the Void Behind the California Sun." The New York Times, November 29.
Johnson, Ken. Review, The New York Times, April 3.
Weschler, Lawrence. "L.A. Glows." The New Yorker California Issue, February 23 & March 2.

1997
"Aspen Art Museum presents..." The Aspen Times, June 14-15.
Aspen Daily News, June 19.
Bowyer Bell, J. Review, Review, March 15.
Bradley, Jeff. "Is it Art?" The Denver Post, August 26, p. 8E.
Chamberlain, Karen. "Defying Gravity, Accepting History." ASPEN ART MUSEUM -Museum News, Summer, p. 5, 7.
Cotter, Holland. "Rising Spiral of Modernism." The New York Times, February 14, p.C31.
Cotter, Holland. "Ideas From the Air Wrapped in Paper." The New York Times, December 19.
Dalton, Jennifer. Review, Review, March 15.
McGlynn, Tom. Review, On The Walls-Critical Reviews, March 15-April 26.
Pederson, Victoria, Review, Paper Magazine, April 1997.
Richard, Frances. Review, ArtForum, Summer 1997.
Shaw, Leslie Ava. Review, Cover, Volume #11, #3.
Yablonsky, Linda. Review, Time Out New York, March 23-April 3.

1996
Adams, Brooks. "The Abstract Century." Art in America, July.
Morgan, Robert. "Sculpture..." Time Out, July 10 - 17.
Reindl, Uta."Nancy Rubins." (Philomena Magers), Kunstforum, February-April.
Photo - The Sciences, May/June.
Photo - New Observations, January - February, Issue #110, p. 20.
"Visual Message." Scholastic Art, April/May (Children's publication).

1995
"1995 Biennial Exhibition." WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, February-April.
"Art." The New Yorker, March 13, p. 20.
"Art." The New Yorker, May 29, p.21.
Artner, Alan G. "Nancy Rubins Never Discards a Good Idea." Chicago Tribune, March 24, p. 42.
Baker, Kenneth. "Whitney Biennial Steers Clear of Culture Wars." San Francisco Chronicle, April 11, Datebook, p. E1 +.
Conkelton, Sheryl. Projects: Nancy Rubins (brochure, no. 49). New York: The Museum of Modern Art.
Conners, Thomas."Chicago." Sculpture, July-August, p.45.
Duncan, Michael."Transient Monuments." Art in America, April, pp.78-83.
Fujimori, Manami. Bijutso Techno Monthly Art Magazine. March, Volume 47, No. 703.
Gardner, James. "Opinion: Whitney Biennial." Sculpture, July-August, pp.6-7.
Gimelson, Deborah. "The New Whitney Biennial: A Balanced and Decorous Snooze." The New York Observer, January 23.
Goldberger, Paul. "The Art of His Choosing." The New York Times, February 26.
Haile, Michael."UCLA 8 at the Whitney." UCLA Magazine, Spring, p.19.
Heartney, Eleanor."The Whitney Museum Biennial." Art Press, June, p. I-III.
James, Jamie."New York's Whitney Biennial." Times of London, April 19.
Jusidman, Yishai."inSITE." Art Issues, January-February, pp.46-48.
Karmel, Pepe."Whitney Biennial." ARTnews, May, p. 147.
Karmel, Pepe."Anything Goes As Long As It's Not Boring." ARTnews, September, p.126-129.
Kazanjian, Dodie."Material Matters." Vogue, July, p. 138-141 +.
Kertess, Klaus."Bahind the Biennial." Vogue, March, pp. 272-73.
Kimmelman, Michael."A Quirky Whitney Biennial." The New York Times, March 24, Section C, pp.1,32.
Kramer, Hilton. "It's Not a Pretty Story: Whitney's Cakes 'n' Christ." The New York Observer, April 3.
Lingemann, Susanne."Elegant-doch fehlt der biss." Art, June (German).
Rugoff, Ralph. "The Show of Shows." Harper's Bazaar, March.
Schjedahl, Peter."Airfill." The Village Voice, February 14, p. 82.
Smith, Roberta."At the Modern, A Deliberate Crash Landing." The New York Times, February 10, p. 28.
Solomon, Deborah."All Persuations, No Whiners." The Wall Street Journal, March 24, p. 12.
Volk, Gregory."Nancy Rubins: Museum of Modern Art." ARTnews, Summer, p. 124.
Yood, James."Nancy Rubins: Rhona Hoffman Gallery." Artforum, November, p. 95-6.
Strickland, Carol. "Whitney Biennial Straddles the Fence." The Christian Science Monitor, April 14, p.11.

1994
"Black Page," Utne Reader January February, p. 144.
"Helter Skelter: LA Art in the 90's." Artweek, September 8, cover.
"InSITE 94 festival artistico de gran transendencia." Summa, August 23, p. 17, section B.
"More than 100 artists and 38 institutions collaborate for biennial exhibition of installation and Site-specific art." Uptown Newsmagazine, October, pp. 22-23.
"Nancy Rubins: Airplane Parts and Building: A Large Growth for San Diego." San Diego Daily Transcript, September 23, p. 19.
Biemiller, Lawrence." A Sculptor Whose Complement of Materials and Forms Challenges the Comfort Zone." Chronicle of Higher Education, January 12, p. A47.
Bouley, Nathalie,"Blancheurs Lyriques ou Country Sculptures." Le Bien Public, June 9.
Criqui, Jean-Pierre, "Country Sculpture," exhibition review, Artforum, November.
Duncan, Michael, "L.A. Rising," Art in America, December, pp. 72-82.
Harris, Susan."Nancy Rubins." Art Press, March, p.95.
Knight, Christopher, "New Border Customs," The Los Angeles Times, October 1, p. F7-F8.
List, Henrik. "New Border Kulissen." Berlingske Tidende, March 19.
McKenna, Kristine, "She's Big on the Art of Recycling," The Los Angeles Times, August 13.
Metz, Barbara and Rafferty, Miriam."inSite 94: A Binational Art Happening." San Diego Daily Transcript, September 23, pp. 6-7.
Muchnic, Suzanne."Looking for Art That's Literally All Over the Map?" Los Angeles Times, September 18, pp. 57-58.
Myles, Eileen, "Nancy Rubins at Paul Kasmin," Art in America, January, p. 103.
Newhall, Edith, Talent Readyt for Takeoff, New York Magazine, December 5.
Pincus, Robert L., "inSITE94 Is No Mere B-Week Exhibit; It's a Transborder Spectacle,"The San Diego Tribune, September 18, p. E-2.
Plagens, Peter, "Sculpture Made to Border," Newsweek, October 31, p.64.
Rasmussen, Christine, "Insightful Art Exhibit Opens Eyes," the Daily Aztec,September 23.
Saltz, Jerry, "L.A. Rising," Art & Auction, April, Cover & pp. 88-91, 122.
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review,"Postmasters Gallery exhibition review, The New Times, February 25, p. C22.
Vega, Patricia."Obras de ruptura, abiertas a multiples lecturas en inSITE 94." La Jornada, September 25, p. 27.
Vogel, Carol. "Inside Art." The New York Times, December 16.

1993
"Die Avantgarde bei Dance." Abendzeitung, May 6, p. 32 (Germany).
"U.C.L.A.'s Fab Four of the Art World," Artswork, U.C.L.A. School of the Arts, Fall, pp. 1, 3, 10, 11.
"Tortenzwischen Matratzen Plaziert." Lingener Tageszeitung, March 12 (Germany).
"Installation von Nancy Rubins." Lingener Tageszeitung, March 9 (Germany).
"Beeck: Installation Grosser Erfolg." Lingener Tageszeitung, March (Germany).
"Nancy Rubins." BT, August, pp. 40-41 (Japan).
"Neue Kunst auf Bruchigen Untergrund." Art, August, p. 53 (Germany).
"Review." Osnabrucker Stadtblatt, April (Germany).
"Venice Biennale." Artist, July, pp. 306, 311 (Taiwan).
"Kunstverein Sucht Matratzen." Lingener Tageszeitung, February 17 (Germany).
Bratschi, Isabelle. "Les oeuvres de quatre artistes font exploser l'espace Art et Public." Le Courrier, December 2 (Switzerland)
Dattenberger, Simone."Kuchen in Fortunas Fullhorn." Suddeutsche Zeitung, May 7 (Germany).
Duncan, Michael."L.A.: The Dark Side." Art in America, March.
Gebhardt, Ines."Torten mit Steuergeldern finanziert." Lingener Tageszeitung, March 25 (Germany).
Gockel, Cornelia."Kreislauf von Werden und Vergehen." Suddeutsche Zeitung, May 19 (Germany).
Grandjean, Emmanuel. "La Galerie Art & Public se met en quatre." Le Nouveau Quotidien, December 21 (Switzerland).
Hess, Elizabeth."Materialized Girls." Village Voice, April 16.
Johnson, Ken. "Love and Rubbish." Art in America, April, pp. 113-15.
Kort, Michael."Speaking to the Human Spirit." U.C.L.A. Magazine, Spring, pp.22-29.
Kuhn, Anne-Elisabeth."Kaisers Neue Kleider." Lingener Tageszeitung, March 29 (Germany).
Liebmann, Lisa."Sculpture." Grand Street, no. 46, pp. 47-63.
Meier, Alfred. "Nancy Rubins." Punkt,March, p. 26 (Germany).
Nesweda, Peter. "LAX." Forum International, January-February, pp. 154-55.
Nyffenegger, Francoise. "Pluralite." Tribune de Geneve, December 2, p.35 (Switzerland).
Pagel, David. "Pieces of Weight: Artificial Paradises." Los Angeles Times, July 22, section F, p. 10.
Reindl, Uta M. "Mattresses and Cakes." Kunstforum, July, p. 402 (Germany).
Rubins, Nancy. "The Question of Gender in Art." Tema Celeste, Winter, p. 56.
Schepers, Heiner. "Uber Skulptur von Nancy Rubins Sprechen." Lingener Tageszeitung, March 16.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Awash in the Venice Biennale." Los Angeles Times, June 20, pp. 4, 88.
"Nancy Rubins." The New York Times, April 16.
Smith, Roberta. "Examining Culture Through Its Castoffs." The New York Times, November 28, pp. 39, 44.
Smith, Roberta. Review, The New York Times, April 16.
Zimmer, William. "Industrial-Strenghth Sculpture with Economy-Size Politics." The New York Times, March 28.

1992
"Art." The New Yorker, April 27, p. 13.
"Art." The New Yorker, June 15, p. 12.
"Art on the Edge." Topanga Messenger, March 26, p. 13.
"Helter Skelter." Artforum, April, p. 103.
"Nancy Rubins." Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, July 3, p. 6 (Germany).
"Views." I.D., May-June, pp. 6-9.
Adams, Brooks. "Nancy Rubins." Art in America, December, p. 123.
Baker, Kenneth. "Helter Skelter, A Defining Moment in L.A. Art." San Francisco Chronicle, March 19, pp. 1. 4.
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review." The New York Times, July 9, section C, p. 28.
Drohojowska, Hunter. "L.A. Raw." ARTnews, April, pp. 78-81.
Faust, Gretchen, "Marking Time." Arts Magazine, February, p. 86.
Frank, Peter "Art Pick of the Week." LA Weekly, May 1, p. 131.
Gerstler, Amy. Artforum, Summer, p. 11.
Gipe, Lawrence. "Helter Skelter." Flash Art, May-June, p. 149.
Kimmelman, Michael. "Helter Skelter' Reveals the Evil of Banality." The New York Times, March 22, section B, pp. 1, 4.
Knaff, Devorah L. "Grim Legacy of the Millennium." The Riverside Press Enterprise, February 2.
Knight, Christopher. "An Art of Darkness at MoCA." Los Angeles Times, January 28.
Kosenko, Peter. "Putting Disgust on Display." In These Times., April 1, pp. 20-21.
Lambrecht, Luc. "Hezachte monument van Nancy Rubins." November 1 (Belgium).
Littlefield, Kinney. "Helter Skelter Scintillates." Long Beach PressTelegram, February, 16.
"The Shadowed Side of Sunny Southren California." The Orange County Register, February 2, section H, pp. 26-27.
Maslon, Laura Stevenson. "Art Chatter." Art Talk, March, p. 32.
Montgomery, Lee. "Helter Skelter." Daily Breeze. January 28, section C, pp. 1-2.
Muchnic, Suzanne. "Art in the City of Angels and Demons." Los Angeles Times, January 26, pp. 4-5, 76-78.
L'arte? Che Garaonda" Il Messaggero, February 5 (Italy).
Sponsors of the New Exhibition Hope to Fend Off L.A. Bashers." New Jersey Star Ledger, February 2.
O'Brian, John. Tema Celeste, Summer, p. 84.
Pagel, David. "Nancy Rubins." Flash Art, March.
"Helter Skelter." Art Issues, May-June, pp. 32-33.
"Nancy Rubins." Flash Art, Summer, pp. 116-17.
"Reflections on a Fascination with Trash." Los Angeles Times, March 26, section F ,p.4.
Pincus, Robert L. "L.A.'s Apocalypse is Almost Now." The San Diego Union Tribune, March 1, section E, p. 2.
Plagens, Peter. "The Wonder Years." Newsweek, december 14, pp. 76-77.
Richard, Paul. "Helter Skelter: Naughty by Nature." The Washington Post, March 22.
Rugoff, Ralph. "MOCA's 'Helter Skelter' and the Art of Our Times." LA Weekly, January 31, p. 18.
Saltz, Jerry. "Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins." Flash Art, November-December, p. 136.
Skelley, Jack. "Helter Skelter." Downtown News, January 13, pp. 1. 13-14.
Smollk, Von Noem. "Mull, Kunst und Leben." Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, July 21(Germany).
Sullivan, Meg. "Helter Skelter." Daily News, January 24, pp. 5-7.
Suzuki, Yoko. "From Rheinland." BT, September, p. 154 (Japan).
Trenkler, Thomas. "Ganz Schon LAX." Wirtschafts Woche, November 5. Pp. 78-79 (Austria).
"Perverses Holterdiepolter." Wirtschafts Woche, April 29, pp. 68-70 (Germany).
Urban, Hope. "The Other Side of L.A." Daily Bruin, January 28, pp. 1, 17, 20-21.
Weintraub, Bernard. "Art and the Underside of L.A." The New York Times, March 4, section B, pp. 1, 4.
Wolf, Steven. "Gimme Skelter." Downtown News, April 6.

1991
Diamond, Barbara. "Heater Art Steams neighbors." The Orange County Register, January 4.
Mott, Patrick. "Art or an Eyesore?" Los Angeles Times, January 5, section N, p. 1.
Volzke, Jonathan. "Laguna Couple Survive Test of Metal." The Orange County Register, January 4.

1990
"The Anchorage." The New Yorker, August 20, p. 14.
"Mall Brawl." The Village Voice, May 1.
Delmar, John davies. "What's Under the Brooklyn Bridge?" New York Newsday, August 27.
Gameman, Amy. "New Sculpture: A Matter of Waste." The Wall Street Journal, January 30, section A, p. 16.
Larson, Kay. "Bridge Over Troubled Waters." New York Magazine, August 13,pp.70-71.
Lerner, Raissa. "Creative Time Reopens Hugh Anchorage Space." The Phoenix, July 19.
Ray, Charles. Forehead: Writing and Art Journal, Beyond Baroque Foundation, Vol. 2, pp. 89-93.
Smith, Roberta. "In a Show on the Issues, the Focus is Outrage." The New York Times, July 27, section C,p. 24.
Wachunas, Tom. "Art to Match Bridge's Awesome Anchorage Space." The Phoenix, July 19.
"Ready to Compliment Art in the Anchorage." The Phoenix, July 26.

1989
"Alderman Behold Art Proposals." Berwyn Life, May 26, p. 1.
"Berwynites Want to Strike Sculpture." Chicago Sun Times, p. 7. Berwyn Life, December 8, p. 1.
Holt, Steven. "Afval als Basis." Industrieel/ontwerpen, No. 4, August (Belgium).

1988
"The Breaking of American Art." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 28.
"A Different Kind of Art." The Pittsburgh Press, May 17, p. 1.
Hornisak, Bill. "Sculpture at the Point." Chicago Tribune, May 18, p. 1.
Lowry, Patricia. "17 day Event Goes Avant-Garde." The Pittsburgh Press, May 29, Section F, pp. 1, 4.
"Festival's sculpture at Point stimulating, Uneven." The Pittsburgh Press, June 4, section B, pp. 5, 7.
Mannella, Susan. "Deer, Deer, Who Left All This at the Point?" Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 18, p. 1.
Miller, Donald. "Arts. Culture Overtake Festival Entertainment." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 4, pp. 1, 16.
"Sculptures Aim to Turn Art into Life." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 7.

1987
Curtis, Cathy, "Monument to Megalopolises past, Future at LACE." Los Angeles Times, December 18.

1986
Baker, Kenneth. "Sprocket's Moon." San Francisco Chronicle, April 2.

1984
Hieronymus, Clara. "World's (sic) apart A Still." The Tennessean, September 9, section C, pp. 1,4.

1983
"D.C. Sculpture Bound for Music City." The Tennessean, January 10.
"Outdoor Art Goes Avant-Garde." USA Today, march 8, p. 1.
"Ripley's Believe It Or Not." February.
"Your Tax $$ Paid for this Hunk of Junk." National Enquirer, January 25.
White, Peter T. "The Fascinating World of Trash." National Geographic, April, pp.452-53.

1982
"Arts Group Tries to Save Sculpture." The Washington Times, July 31, section B, p. 4.
"But is it Art?" Norwalk Hour, August 24.
C.B.S. Nightly News, July 25.
N.B.C. Nightly News, July 24.
"Washington talk, 60 second debate." The New York Times, August 17, section B, p. 18.
Bowman, La Barbara. "Judge Ends Scrape." The Washington Post, July 31, section B p.7.
Hall, Carla. "As the Whirl turns." The Washington Post, August 1, p. 18.
Lewis Jo Ann. "Sculpting Up a Storm." The Washington Post, July 17, section B, pp. 1,5.
"Sculpture in a Tornado." The Washington Post, October 18, section C, p. 7. December 18, section C, pp. 1, 9.
Nodal, Al, "When the City is the canvas." The Washington Post, June 8, section D, p. 1.

1981
"Gets the Job Done." Berwyn Life, June 1.
"Letters to the Editor." Berwyn Life, July 8.
"Letters to the Editor." Chicago Reader. August 14.
Shopping Centers Today, January, p. 1.
Balser, Randy. "The Junk Sculpture is Art." Berwyn Life, June 21.
DeZutter, Hank. "Art Battle in Berwyn: The Concrete Monster From Out of State." Reader, July 10, pp. 3, 34.
Ervin, Michael. "But is it Art?" Heartland, Spring, p. 22
Herguth, Bob, "Public Eye." Sunday Sun Times, August 16, p. 12.
Starr, Autumn. "The Making of the Berwyn Sculpture." The Oz Express, October 17,p.10.
Voedisch, Lynn. "Shoppers Battle, Admire or Ignore Artwork in Malls." Suburban Sun Times, January 29.
Wisby, Gary. "Berwyn 'Bil-Bored" Stirs Up a Storm." Sunday Sun Times, April 5.
"Bil-bored' Sculptor Chisels away Criticism." Sunday Sun Times, May 17, p. 8.

1980
A.B.C. Nightly News, November 24.
C.B.S. Evening News with Walter Cronkite, November 24.
"Letters to the Editor." Berwyn Life. December 31.
"Matula Blasts Art as a Health Hazard." Berwyn Life, December 30.
N.B.C. Nightly News, November 25.
The New York Times, August 12, p. 18.
N.P.R. "All Things Considered." December 15.
"Plaza Statue a Mixed Bag, Council Says." Berwyn Life, November 2.
"Sculpture of Used Appliances Has Residents Crying Foul." Schenectady Gazette, November 25.
Arndt, Michael. "Metal Ode to Shoppers." Suburban Tribune, November 21, p. 2.
Emmerman, Lynn. "Hunk of junk? It's called Art." Chicago Tribune, November 24, p.2.
Ferorelli, Enrico. "Wall Street Comes Alive." Fortune, July 14, p. 116.
Glueck, Grace. "Art People." The New York Times, May 16.
"Summer art Scene: From 42d St. South." The New York Times, August 8.
Larson, Kay. "Beached." Village Voice, July 23-29, pp. 70-71.
Manson, Ken. "Plaza Suite, Is it art or Junk?" Berwyn Life. November 21, p. 1.
Norklin, Kathy. "The Landfill, Monster and Dreams." Washington Market Review, Summer.
Russell, John. "Art: Noguchi Spaces At the Whitney," The New York Times, February 8.
Tallamer, Jerry. "Some Piece of Junk." New York Post, February 16.
Zimmer, William. Review, Soho News, June 25.

1979
Brown, Christopher. "Reichart and Rubin (sic), Assertive Sculptures." Artweek, June 2, p. 7.
Dollar, Steve. "Everything But the Kitchen Sink." Florida Flambeau, December 10, p. 22.

EDUCATION

1976 M.F.A., University of California, Davis
1974 B.F.A., The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore

TEACHING POSITIONS

1988 to present University of California, Los Angeles
1990 California Institute of the Arts, Spring
1987-1988 University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1986-87 University of California, Los Angeles, Spring
1985 University of California, Irvine, Fall semester
1982-83 University of California, Los Angeles
1981 The Maryland Institute, College of Art, Spring semester
1981 Princeton University, Winter
1979 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Fall semester
1976 San Francisco Art Institute, Fall semester

AWARDS

2003 American Academy of Arts & Letters, Academy Award in Art
2000 Maryland Institute College of Art Alumni Award
1997-1998 Flintridge Foundation
1993 Rockefeller Foundation Travel Award
1991 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking,
Photography, and Craft Media
1981 N.E.A.
1981 Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York State Council for the Arts
1980 N.E.A.
1977 N.E.A.


SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Burgundy Frac, Dijon, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Sun America Collections, Los Angeles
ArtPace, Houston
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville
Hof de Neuen Galerie, Graz
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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