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Introducing our 2024 Pride Show Artist:

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Marcus Rothering​

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​​​October 11 - November 4, 2024

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Opening Reception: 

Saturday,  Oct 12,  5 to 8 pm

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Join Rubine Red Gallery for the first show of the 2024-25 Season as we introduce Artist Marcus Rothering to Southern California for his first ever solo show of fantastical ceramics and textiles.

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from Marcus Rothering:

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“Wildthots” is a carousel of my practice displaying queerness in different phases using all ranges of visualization.  The ceramic work, structured and methodical, exists in unwanted space.  The transparency, unwholeness, enduring, twisting and undulating existence, creates forms hoping to find their place.  The process of forming this woven grid requires time and discipline to express the penetrable shield required for queer existence.  Sensuous globs of glaze run down the sculptures in sporadic unexpected ways to upend the rigidity. 

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Using humor and raunch, the tufted wall rugs play with queer sexuality in all its awkward, shameless and intimate glory.  Ranging from mortifying pre-pubescent memories to becoming confident with your desires, this series is a display of the queer black experience.   By imploring gay internet culture and personal narratives, the root of the work seeks to soften these stories, in a current time when softness is not often present.  The combination of hard and soft speaks to the dynamics of domesticity and the urge we feel to find home.

 

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