CONTACT:iiiiiiiiiiiiiBrieRuais@gmail(dot)com

ABOUT:
Brie Ruais was born in 1982, in Southern California. She received her BA from NYU in 2004 and MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts in 2011. She has lived, worked, and shown in New York for over a decade.

Ruais uses malleable and fluid materials, such as plaster and clay, for their ability to hold the shape of a gesture and for their historical use in representing the body. Her sculpture hovers between abstraction and figuration, often alluding to the absence of the body through the presence of the hand. Ruais’ pieces take on modes-of-being as exhibited by human bodies: theatricality, dependence (the need to be taken-care-of), vulnerability to outside forces, and the act of infinitely unfolding. Her recent influences include feminist theorists Luce Irigaray and Elizabeth Grosz, and a beloved group of women who construct their own rafts and take to the river every summer.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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2009


2008

2007
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2005

2004

Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, NY, NY
Fabric As Form,
Jack Tilton Gallery, NY, NY
Columbia University MFA Thesis Exhibtion,
The Fischer Landau Center for the Arts, Queens, NY
Durer's Rhinocerous,
The LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY
The Record Show,
Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA
B-Sides,
6-8 Months Project Space, NY, NY
First-Year MFA Exhibition, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
Tragic Sense of Life,
Westchester Community College Fine Arts Gallery, Rochester, NY.
HoneySpace Benefit Auction,
Honey_Space, New York, NY
A Hunter's Return to the Good Country
, Fontanelle Gallery, Portland, OR
Dangerous Women, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Sense and Sensitivity, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Bodyjar
, Untrained, Santa Fe, NM
Forever Home, Little Cakes Gallery, New York, NY
Forever Home, HPGRP, Tokyo, Japan
Generations5, AIR Gallery, New York, NY
Cabin Comforts, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Delicate Kinship, HPGRP, Tokyo, Japan
The True Mirror, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
Guild the Lily Inaugural Exhibition, 137 Galery, New York, NY
The Eclectic Painting Show, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY


AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2011
2008
2005
2000
Abrons Art Center / Henry Street Settlement, AIRspace Residency
Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Fellowship
The Philadelphia Fabric Workshop and Museum, Apprenticeship
NYU Steinhardt Arts Scholarship



BIBLIOGRAPHY
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The New Yorker, "Goings On About Town, Paul Clay", August 1
The New York Times
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“Paul Clay”, review by Roberta Smith, June 3
Columbia Spectator,
“Art Exhibit More Strange Than Standard”, April 4
Someone’s Garden
, Interview and spread with Saviour Scraps, June
-Ship. Designed and edited by Lauren Mackler, essay and artwork by B.Ruais, p.271
Allison Smith: The Muster, The Public Art Fund, New York, NY, 2007, p. 8, 30, 74-75, 84
Philadelphia Weekly,“Art at LAVA”, by Doug Wallen, November 1
Modern Weekly, By John Storey, Feature on Cabin Comforts
NY Arts Magazine. Danielle Jackson, "Cabin Comforts," Vol. 11, no 9/10, September, p.28
The Brooklyn Rail, “Saviour Scraps: Cabin Comforts," Review by William Powhida, July/August, p.30
Knit Knit, “The Muster,” feature on Saviour Scraps by Luren Jenison, Issue 6, p.25
Little Treats, Hanna Fushihara, Fall
Artforum.com: Diary. Domenick Ammirati, “Role Call,“ May 18
New York Times, Randall Kennedy “Desert Island Fantasy: Lazy Day in the Park with a Tent and a Cause,” May 16, p.E1
New York Times, New Jersey Arts Section, Review of "The True Mirror", March 29
Grand Street News, “Cool Art in Unexpected Places” Review of Guild the Lily, by Carol Markel, August
Flavorpill. “Guild the Lily“, Issue 214, July 13
Village Voice. “Pick of the Week”, Guild the Lily Inaugural Exhibition, July
   
   

LINKS

Meryl O'Connor - "The River Twice", a Documentary film

Lauren Mackler
- Public Fiction, Los Angeles

Nathlie Provosty - painting

Leah Wolff - sculpture

Julia Sherman - video, performance, installation

Guy Ben-Ari - painting

Emily Henretta - sculpture and printmaking

Ruby Sky Stiler - sculpture

Katie Kline - photography

David Gilbert - photography and sculpture