Gina Osterloh + Brie Ruais
Opening Reception July 13PROVINCETOWN
July 13 – August 7, 2018
Brie Ruais (b. 1982, Southern California) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose sculptures in clay and paper pulp are proximal studies in causality; the transformation of the artist’s own body weight into form and the recorded experiences of an intensely physical process of motion and impact. She has exhibited widely, including the solo exhibitions Brie Ruais at Night Gallery in Los Angeles; Attempting to Hold the Landscape at Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Broken Ground at Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; 130 lbs. of Proximal Frontage at Mesler/Feuer, New York; and XO at Nicole Klagsbrun, New York. She is the recipient of the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program award, the Montello Foundation Residency, and the Dieu Donne Papermaking Residency, among other honors. Ruais’ work is featured in Vitamin C: New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Clay and Ceramics, by Phaidon (2017), and has been exhibited at institutions including the Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington DC; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
BORN
1982, Southern California, USA
EDUCATION
Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York, NY, MFA, 2011
New York University, Steinhardt School, NY, BFA, 2004
SOLO + TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
Brie Ruais, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, NY, USA (Forthcoming in May)
2018
Gina Osterloh + Brie Ruais, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA
Brie Ruais, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Brie Ruais and John Mason, Albertz Benda Gallery, Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX, USA
Attempting to Hold the Landscape, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017
Brie Ruais and Thomas Fougeirol, Albertz Benda Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL, USA
Broken Ground, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Paper Covers Rock, Letha Wilson and Brie Ruais, September, Hudson, NY, USA
Squid Ink, Rosy Keyser and Brie Ruais, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2016
According to the Body, YoungWorld, Detroit, MI, USA
Where You No Longer Are, There is Your Desert, Thomas Hunter Project Space, New York, NY, USA
2015
130 lbs of Proximal Frontage, Mesler/Feuer with Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA
2014
Dugout, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
Brie Ruais & Anna Betbeze, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Brie Ruais, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
2013
XO, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY, USA
Two Wholes, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
2012
Unfolding // Performing Sculpture, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Halsey McKay at Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Somatic Gesture, organized by Romer Young Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA, USA
Clay Today, The Hole, New York, NY, USA
2017
Glen Baldridge, Eli Hansen, Brie Ruais, Halsey McKay Gallery, NADA Miami, FL, USA
True Lies, organized by Simon Cole, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
I GO, YOU GO, GOOD TO GO, Unclebrother (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise), Hancock, NY, USA
Form of Touch, curated by Becky Nahom, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Resistance After Nature, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, USA
New Ruins, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., USA
Six Years of The Shandaken Project, Phillips Auction House, New York, NY, USA
Post-Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA
2016
Breather, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
Blue Jean Baby, September Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA
3 Sculptors, Sally Saul, Brie Ruais, and Sara Murphy, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Splotch, Curated by Eileen Jeng, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY, USA
Mal Maison, curated by Ashton Cooper, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA
Low, curated by Ethan Greenbaum and Michael DeLucia, Lyles and King, New York, NY, US
2015
Crafted: Objects in Flux, MFA Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Road to Ruin, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Performative Process, curated by Ryan Steadman, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
The Familiar and the Indefinable in Clay: The Scripps 71st Ceramic Annual, Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Claremont, CA, USA
2014
Socrates Sculpture Park EAF14 Exhibition, Long Island City, NY, USA
Geometries of Intimacy, curated by Jess Wilcox and Clara Halpern, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, USA
Next, Arsenal, Montreal, Canada
A Topography of Chance, San Francisco, CA, USA
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann's Legacy Today, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
2013
Ajar, Curated by Natasha Llorens, Reverse, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Come Together: Surviving Sandy Year 1, curated by Phong Bui, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Where The Sun Don’t Shine, curated by 247365, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Vessels, The Horticulture Society of New York, New York, NY, USA
Exhibition Curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Marc Selwyn Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Exhibition curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
2012
NADA Miami Beach, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
AIRspace 2012, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, USA
Movement in Three Parts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011
BYTS Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, USA
Fabric as Form, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010
The Record Show, The Museum of Public Fiction, Los Angeles, CA, USA
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2017
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, New York, NY, USA
Montello Foundation Residency, Montello, NV, USA
2016
Dieu Donne Papermaking Residency, New York, NY, USA
2014
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, Queens, NY, USA
The Shandaken Project Residency, Shandaken, NY, USA
2012
Guest Artist Exhibition Series, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2011
Abrons Art Center & Henry Street Settlement, AIRspace Residency, New York, NY, USA
2008
Vermont Studio Center, Sculpture Fellowship and Residency, Johnson, VT, USA
2005
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Apprenticeship, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Gaa Gallery Provincetown is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring the works of Gina Osterloh and Brie Ruais, through August 7. Please join us for the opening reception on July 13 from 6 - 9 pm.