Sam Francis

Untitled, 1984

106.7 X 73 inch

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Sterling RUBY | Curving (Tree) | C-Print, 2006 — available on Composition Gallery

1 work in 5 parts with frames. Chromogenic print. Each 35 x 35 Inches. Framed by the artist. // Five nearly square panels, each framed in raw wood, hang together as one work, their surfaces covered in dense, scratched and gouged markings — tangled scrawls, half-legible letters, and scored diagonal lines that recall bark stripped by a knife or graffiti carved into a tree trunk. Rendered as chromogenic photographs rather than drawings, the images blur the line between photographic document and abstract mark-making. Spread across five separate frames, the work behaves like a fractured photograph of a single surface, each panel a close-up fragment of the same restless, carved-over texture.

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Curving (Tree), 2006

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1 work in 5 parts with frames. Chromogenic print. Each 35 x 35 Inches. Framed by the artist. // Five nearly square panels, each framed in raw wood, hang together as one work, their surfaces covered in dense, scratched and gouged markings — tangled scrawls, half-legible letters, and scored diagonal lines that recall bark stripped by a knife or graffiti carved into a tree trunk. Rendered as chromogenic photographs rather than drawings, the images blur the line between photographic document and abstract mark-making. Spread across five separate frames, the work behaves like a fractured photograph of a single surface, each panel a close-up fragment of the same restless, carved-over texture.

Artwork Copyright © Sterling Ruby

Sterling Ruby

Curving (Tree), 2006

Limited Edition Print

C-Print

USD 29,250

Sterling Ruby

Deep Orange, 2016

Limited Edition Print

Mixed Media

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