Austin Home Magazine: Tammie Rubin

Tammie Rubin’s sculptures brilliantly transform the most unassuming objects into the mythical and unlock the infinite meaning they’re capable of possessing. For her, space is less a muse, and more a silent observer. “When I feel like the space is serving me well, and I’m settled, I feel really comfortable…” says Tammie, “Then the space works. You know what I mean? There’s nothing magical about it.”

Tammie seeks out intuitive spaces “where I’m not having to stop and start. And I’m responding. And I’m really present in that moment of creating.” Tammie found one such space at And&And Studios, formerly a church. “This was the east side of Austin, which was the historically Black and Latino side of Austin, and had been gentrified long before I got there. This was one of those A-frame neighborhood churches that I’m very familiar with coming from the south side of Chicago. It was deconsecrated, and an artist named Lisa Woods bought this place and decided to rehab it as a creative space…The bones of that original church, the rafters are still there.”